In 2018, the influx of Yemeni asylum seekers generated the unprecedented politicization of the refugee issue in South Korea. This paper explored South Korean attitudes towards refugees by collecting data from Korean college students. In doing so, we looked into what led to negative attitudes towards refugees and the role perceived threats play as a mediator. Following previous studies on intergroup threat theory, we noted that threat perception was a useful tool in understanding intergroup prejudice and anxiety as perceived threats and their antecedents were found to explain a significant amount of the attitudes towards refugees. We also found strong interconnections between prejudices towards different minority groups, including Islamophobia, homophobia and anti-refugee attitudes. This finding supported the idea that such prejudices are part of a larger intolerant belief system towards minority groups in general.

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难民被视为威胁：韩国大学生对难民的态度

2018年，也门寻求庇护者的涌入导致韩国难民问题前所未有的政治化。本文通过收集韩国大学生的数据来探讨韩国对难民的态度。在此过程中，我们研究了导致对难民的消极态度的原因以及感知到的威胁作为调解者所扮演的角色。根据之前对群体间威胁理论的研究，我们注意到威胁感知是理解群体间偏见和焦虑的有用工具，因为感知到的威胁及其前因被发现可以解释对难民的大量态度。我们还发现对不同少数群体的偏见之间存在密切的关联，包括仇视伊斯兰教、仇视同性恋和反难民态度。这一发现支持了这样一种观点，即这种偏见是对少数群体普遍不宽容的信仰体系的一部分。