Nurses are the first medical personnel that foreign patients and their families generally encounter and they must be able to understand patients’ cultural backgrounds and care for them accordingly. The ability to do so is known as cultural competence (Giger, 2016). Cultural competence is a core capability for nurses, as it allows them to provide effective and culturally responsive services to ethnically and culturally diverse patients. It consists of five constructs: cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, cultural encounters and cultural desire (Campinha-Bacote, 2002). The Korean Accreditation Board of Nursing Education recommends a curriculum to improve nurses’ core competencies, including the ability to embrace cultural diversity and apply effective communication techniques to show respect for all patients, including those with generational and cultural differences (Seomun et al., 2021).