This study was conducted for the purposes of analyzing the relationship between the process of transitions of social unification education and governance thereof, and seeking direction for new social unification education governance necessary for the modified awareness of unification and social phenomena following inter-Korean summit talks in 2000. Social unification education not only for schools but the general public began to be activated since the inter-Korean summit talks in 2000. Accordingly, diversified means of activating socialunification education had been proposed. This study is focusing on the means of advancing social unification education governance among such diversified means for the following reasons. First, unlike the unification education at school for which the central and local autonomous governments, and schools play the principal role, more diversified range of parties including central and local autonomous governments, civil groups, corporations and clubs are involved with social unification education. Second, in order to further advance unification education, it is necessary for private and public sectors to establish governance system for generation of unification education related policies by establishing consensus and gathering all available resources for peaceful unification. Third, while civil social activities and government policies in the area of social unification education in Korean society had achieved marked progresses, advances in social unification education governance system are still quite sluggish. Overall activities of civic society in Korea underwent rapid growth in terms of their scales and capabilities with the onset of the era of direct democracy immediately following the implementation of system of direct election of president in 1987. From thisperspective, establishment of private-public sector governance system for social unification education, which currently remains inadequate in comparison to the advances made for civic society activities and social unification education policies of the government, can be deemed necessary in creating unification education system much more appropriate for the matured democratic civic society. Fourth, another reason for the importance of social unification education governance is that the topic of unification that embraces the era and history is a social transition that is not only for the benefits only of residents of specific regions but also capable of imparting influences on all the constituent members of Korean society. As it can be seen from the case of Germany, unification does not only signify integration at the domain of regime but understanding and union at the domain of civic society is also very important. As such, it is necessary to seek channels for sociocultural communication through which the residents of both the South and the North can understand and live with each other by pursuing common values. Since peace and unification in Korean Peninsula is the demand of the current era for which all the people in our society are the subjects and participate in,it is extremely urgent to activate regional unification education and formulate consensus for unification. Mature private-public governance is required for the advancement of peaceful unification education. There is a need for the Ministry of Unification, Ministry of Education and civic groups, etc. to form alliance to deduce and proliferating the details of unification education by reaching social agreement (social consensus) throughout our society in order to accomplish the significance of Korean type Beutelsbacher consensus For this purpose, there is a need to pursue cooperative governance system with high levels of role division, autonomy and participation of diversified principals. Moreover, unlike the past, it is necessary to establish private-public cooperation structure with high levels of role division, autonomy and participation of diversified principals in order to reflect the changes in the new unification environment and unification campaign related maturity of civic society. Accordingly, there is a necessary for civic societies including civic organizations, universities and research institutes, etc. and various associations to share sense of responsibility and pursue cooperative governance with the government.
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