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Collective Identity of North Korea and Social Integration Identity of Future Generations in Korean Peninsular

Lee, HyunJoo 1

1고려대학교아세아문제연구소

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ABSTRACT

Korean peninsular is in the time to prepare for the social integration of its future generations after the unification of the territory. The fact is South and North Korean societies lack in their objective understanding of each other, enclosed with prejudices formed since the division. For the purpose, various studies and discussion related to the integration of values in the future of the peninsular should be preceded based on unbiased understanding of North Korea's collective identity. This study considers the collective identity of North Korea as Kimilsung monolithic ideology which has characteristics of voluntary system(loyalty, reliability) and compulsory system(supremacy, predominance) and explains it has resulted from ‘related knowledge formation’, ‘system of power’, ‘relationship between ego and others’ which Michel Foucault suggests as three formation factors of collective identity. The result of our survey of 284 North Korean refugees shows that the collective identity of Kimilsung monolithic ideological system is internalized in North Korean inhabitants and forms ‘loyalty’ supported by ‘reliability’. The Korean society in the unfied peninsular should accommodate the strengths of South and North Korea. This study suggests a desirable identity model for social integration in the unified territory which can combine freedom and democracy of South and loyalty and reliability of North.

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