This project aims to publish a special issue in ASIEN: The German Journal of Contemporary Asia, which is most prestigious journal in Asian Studies in Germany, with the topic of transnational civic engagements of Korean migrants in Germany with researchers working in the humanities and social sciences in Germany, in order to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Korea and Germany in 2023. There has been a significant number of research on the first generation of the Korean immigrants in Germany who migrated to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s as guestworkers. In particular, there has been a scholarly attempt to record the voices of these workers based upon life history methodology. Also, based on these works, scholars in Korean studies have given efforts to link the empirical studies to theoretical discussion in Germany. In the meantime, unlike the first-generation Koreans who came to Germany as ‘guest workers’ who were subjected to rebuild ruined German economy and society after the WWII as well as were expected to support Korean national economy, the pattern as well as the motivation of the Korean migrants in Germany has been extensively diversified – study, business, employment, and lifestyle migration. As a result, the scope of their activities as well as the influences of Korean migrants in German society has been extensively increasing in various forms. In this special issue, we attempt to explore the meaning of ‘transnationality’ as well as the ‘identity as a global citizen’ shown in their activities by focusing on the civic engagements of the Korean migrants in Germany and try to systematically theorize based upon the empirical studies discussed in this special issue.