Is or Isn't?

Every now and then, I'll read a few articles from the English newspaper websites in Korea, and after clicking on a title that catches my interest, i'll read the opening paragraph to see if it's worth reading.

Here's what I read, from the Korean times, titled "1.1 Million Foreigners":

The number of foreign residents topped 1.1 million in May, meaning one in every 50 people living here are foreigners. Korea can hardly be called a multicultural country yet, but it may only be a matter of time before it becomes one, given the ongoing pace of increase in foreigners, whose number has doubled in just three years.

So, what I got from that, is "2% isn't multicultural, but soon "Korea" will be tolerant."

It then talks about "finding" SE Asian brides for rural guys, discrimination, and what some of the things the government are doing to help the foreigners adjust to Korea.

Then I saw an article called "Face Korea's Racial Divisions" in the Joongang Daily, so went on to read the opening paragraph:

The number of expatriates living in our country has exceeded 1.1 million, according to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security’s survey of non-Koreans of foreign nationality who have lived in Korea longer than 90 consecutive days or have acquired Korean nationality. The statistics show that our country has become a multicultural society.

So, what I get from that is "2% = multicultural". It then talks about the reason for why there are racial/discriminatory problems in Korea, and what steps are being taken (for both Koreans and foreigners) to try to improve the situation.

After reading both articles, the one that gave me the positive feeling about have had lived in Korea, and the feeling about goin back, is the Joongang Daily article. Because of the final paragraph:

What’s most important is to have open hearts and a warm attitude to accept foreign residents as our neighbors. Employing a foreigner as the head of a public corporation does not suddenly make our society international and advanced. When all foreign workers and spouses in Korea feel they are welcome here, only then will our country become global in the truest sense.

That's the kind of "feel good" stuff that is refreshing for me, rather than other articles aimed at over-exaggerating already over-exaggerated stereotypes for both Koreans, and foreigners in Korea.