These days there is a movement to adapt English as an official language in Korea as well as in ]apan regardless of the danger that our mother tongue Korean or ] apanese could degenerate into a so-called museum language, i.e., dead language. The assertion that globalisation refers to the age of English forces us to consider why and for what we teach and leam the German language. In the age of globalisation, the horizon of multicultural understanding should be broadened. The English-only politics allows us only one world-view or ideology and we will encounter a really monotonous and devastated culture-landscape. In this context, teaching German can contribute to multicultural understanding.