[학술논문] Transforming Youth Perceptions of Korean Unification through Global Citizenship Education

...the study argues that GCE provides an indirect and demand-oriented pathway through which young people can engage with inter-Korean issues by connecting them to broader global values such as human rights, interdependence, and peace. By conceptualizing inter-Korean social integration as a gradual, pre-unification process, this study reframes unification as a contemporary ethical and social question.

[학술논문] Closing the Inter-Korean Divide: Evaluating Intergroup Contact Classes for South Korea’s Unification Education

...growing sense of social distance toward North Korean refugees have become significant obstacles to their integration into South Korean society. South Korean unification education has, thus far, not provided an effective response to this challenge. This case study introduces the North-South Forum as a potential solution and evaluates its impact on 135 middle school students. Changes in social distance, prejudice...

[학위논문] 조선인민군의 사회주의 농촌건설 참여와 ‘군민일치(軍民一致)’ 사회 형성(1945~1972)

...the increasing entwinement of the military with North Korean society. While early discussions of the military framed it as a force capable of reorganizing society, in the 1950s and 1960s this potential materialized as active and institutionalized engagement. Moreover, while the 1950s saw discharged soldiers at the forefront of this integration, by the 1960s the scope had expanded to include standing...

[학술논문] 노자의 통일관념으로 본 남·북한 상호주의와 바람직한 통일문화

...case of South Korea, where the social atmosphere is turbulent due to globalization, the South will be awakened if it does not lose the past and the purity toward one nation, in which case, the discussion over the unification culture and the community of the unification culture can be continued. Finally, Lao-tzu’s unification concept is, in fact, that of integration. The reason for using the expression...

[학위논문] 남북한 고대사 인식 차이에 대한 계량적 분석 연구 : 북한의 민족주의적 고대사 인식을 중심으로

...method, and the functionalist role theory. In the course of preparation, it is necessary to promote the Inter-Korean Cultural Agreement for consistent and sustainable cooperation in accordance with North Korea's response, and in the short term, it is necessary to establish the Inter-Korean Humanities and Social Sciences Integration Research Institute and expand the scope of North Korean data opening.

[국내] The Costs and Benefits of Unification on the Korean Peninsula

...governments’ policy on North Korea and unification attempted to modify inter-Korean relations with the reflection of the circumstantial changes, namely the deconstruction of the Cold War regime, and eventually, is evaluated to have made progress in inter-Korean relations in various aspects. Based on the directionality of inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation, the Kim Dae-jung administration’s engagement...

[국내] Study on North Korean Defectors' Perception about Democracy and the Market Economy

The social conflicts and costs associated with inter-Korean institutional integration can only become minimized when the perception of North Korean residents can be reflected in the integration progress in a mutually interactive way. However, since North Koreans have experienced very different political and economic systems under the three-generational monolithic leadership and a deformed socialist...