Interesting story on how the South Korean government has manufactured "multiculturalism" in place of Minjok ('ethno-state') within just a decade.

The language introduced in 2005-2006, and backed up by later legislative action, produced a striking change in attitudes. By 2010, the Korean Identity Survey, a national poll run by two research institutes and a South Korean newspaper, found that more than 60 percent of Koreans supported the idea of a multicultural society. As of July 2016, more than 2 million foreigners lived in South Korea, up from just 536,627 in 2006. The country elected its first lawmaker of foreign birth, the Philippine-born Jasmine Lee, in 2012. By 2020, an estimated one-third of all children born in South Korea will be of mixed South Korean and other Asian descent.
The caveat is that this reflects a policy of tolerating immigration, miscegenation, and assimilation, not exactly multiculturalism, and the change in attitude does not seem to extend to the global refugee conundrum, which South Koreans haven't given much thought in the past. If you look up the situation on the resort island Jeju, a few hundred Yemeni refugees arriving earlier in the year caused widespread panic and protests throughout the country. A majority of the population favors restrictive refugee policies. SK has only admitted a few hundred or thousand (non-North Korean) refugees in its entire modern history (admittedly not many have applied).

The alt-right loves to talk up East Asian countries as alleged examples of ethnostates. Unsurprisingly the Jeju story has been hot on Breitbart and other such spaces. Another corner of the battle for the future.