• 제목/요약/키워드: Unification of Korea

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Disseminating Daesoon Thought: A Comparative Analysis

  • CHRYSSIDES, George D.
    • 대순사상과 동아시아종교
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    • 제1권2호
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    • pp.13-39
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    • 2022
  • The author examines three new religious movements in South Korea: Jehovah's Witnesses, the Unification Church, and the Daesoon Jinrihoe, and aims to identify the factors that are conducive to the growth of each. All three organisations believe in a coming paradise, and the article explores their respective attempts to interest the populace in their appeal. Discussion is given to membership statistics and the problems of measuring allegiance and moves on to consider methods of propagation. Most obviously, evangelisation strategy is important: Jehovah's Witnesses and Unificationists have tended to engage the interest of strangers, while followers of Daesoon Jinrihoe are more inclined to evangelise family and friends. Additionally, there are other factors that determine an organisation's progress: cultural appropriateness, engagement in social and educational work, and attitudes to conflict and peace, the latter being particularly important in a society that has experienced war and occupation. Reference is made to the ways in which these three organisations finance themselves, and it is argued that financial resources merit greater attention in the scholarly study of religion, since monetary assets are needed to secure a spiritual movement's existence. Of the three organisations under discussion, the Daesoon Jinrihoe has been the most successful, being South Korea's largest new religion, while Jehovah's Witnesses are in steady state, and the Unification movement is experiencing slight decline.

글로벌 게이트웨이 논의와 한반도 서비스산업 비전 및 전략 (Vision and Strategy for Service Industry on the Korean Peninsula : Discussion on the Global Gateway for Service Cooperation)

  • 박문서
    • 통상정보연구
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.467-491
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    • 2007
  • The Korean Peninsula has the gateway role of Far East Asia in economic aspect, because it is the channel to global world that Korea and Japan should take in the future. Till now, there was no real economic cooperation in service industry for two Koreas. Nevertheless, it is high time that two Koreas have to play a gateway role in order to pave the way to come true their global vision. This paper aims to examine the possibility of economic cooperation between two Koreas in service sector and explore the vision and strategy which are useful for the ways toward peaceful unification on the Korean Peninsula and two Koreas' future survival in the midst of global competition. Economic cooperation in service sector, such as transport, tourism, educational services, etc. between two Koreas means establishing and strengthening the infrastructure of their unification. If there were no cooperation of service sector on the Korean Peninsula, we also could not expect the outcome of economic cooperation and the vision of Korea's unification. To sum up, the strategy recommended for the Korean Peninsula's global vision is that two Koreas should simultaneously open the window of economic cooperation in service sector and link the interface between the Eurasian continent and the Korean Peninsula.

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A Study on the Population Structure of Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  • Jeon, Saebom;Kim, Seong Eun;Park, Yousung
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2015
  • The re-unification of the two Koreas is seen as a potential solution to the aging problem and low fertility, along with the increase in the old population structure of the Republic of Korea. Population structure is an indicator of national competitiveness or growth, but little is known officially about the populations of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Understanding the population structure of the DPRK is important to prepare for re-unification and estimate the socio-economic costs of national welfare under a re-unified Korea. In this paper, we assess reliability of the two modern national censuses of DPRK and use the limited resources available to reconstruct the intercensal populations between these two censuses. Excess deaths from the 1995 famine are estimated at 489,972 to 574,306 and are close to the estimates of Goodkind et al. (2011) and the reconstructed populations in the of DPRK implies a big difference between two Koreas.

유신체제시기 박정희 대통령의 집권욕과 폭압성: 통일주체국민회의·대통령긴급조치·부마항쟁 (President Park Chung-Hee's Greed for Dominance and Oppression during Yushin Regime: The National Council for Unification Subject, President's emergency rule, and Buma Uprising)

  • 정주신
    • 한국과 국제사회
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    • 제1권2호
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    • pp.33-84
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    • 2017
  • 이 논문은 1970년대 유신체제 시기 박정희 대통령의 집권욕과 폭압성을 주제로 통일주체국민회의의 반민주성, 대통령긴급조치의 위법성, 부마항쟁진압의 폭압성에 관한 사례연구로 구성되어 있다. 즉 유신헌법 제정으로 제도화된 대통령 선출기구인 통일주체국민회의, 대통령이 장기집권을 위해서 대학생과 재야세력을 탄압하기 위한 수단으로 단행한 대통령긴급조치, 그리고 유신체제와 박정희 대통령의 집권욕과 폭압성에 대해 저항하고 폭력에 맞선 부마항쟁으로 되어 있다. 이 사례 분석을 위한 연구방법으로는 인과관계 측면(유신체제의 성립과 붕괴), 법 제도적 측면(유신헌법과 대통령긴급조치), 그리고 행태적 측면(박정희 대통령의 집권욕과 폭압성)을 적용했다. 유신헌법을 통해 제도화된 통일주체국민회의와 대통령긴급조치에 의한 유신체제의 성립으로 박정희 대통령은 집권욕과 폭압성에 의한 장기집권에 집착했다. 그리하여 시대정신과 민주헌정의 기틀을 유지하지 못한 것이 대학생과 시민들의 반체제운동의 일환인 부마항쟁을 촉발시키면서 유신체제가 붕괴되기까지의 과정을 이 논문에서는 고찰하고 있다.