남북 사회문화교류연구: 민속무용을 중심으로

Abstract

This study initially aimed to perceive the importance of cultural exchanges by truly realizing that ‘A culture could not change the world, but change a person’. Among many exchange areas between South and North Korea, the cultural exchanges should be preceded for enhancing the mutual understanding, promoting the ethnic reconciliation, and relieving the tension in the Korean Peninsula. In order for the divided society to achieve the true integration, on top of the systemic integration which is the political/institutional integration, it would be also necessary to precede the sociocultural integration that forms the emotional bond between members. The folk art used to be enjoyed by the general public in traditional society. Thus, it is certainly one of the most fundamental cultural heritages in which our sentiments and ethnic homogeneity could be empathized. Therefore, for the recovery of homogeneity of ethnic culture, the folk art could play important roles as a means of cultural exchanges between South and North Korea. The results of this study are as follows. First, in case of sociocultural exchanges, the government and private sector should properly divide their roles. Even though it could be done by both government and private sector, the basic subject would be the private sector, and especially in the early stage, it should be led by the private sector. Second, through the academic exchanges by folk art scholars between South and North Korea, the differences in the existing fixed or distorted perception and evaluation of folk art(dance) should be resolved. Third, the South-North Korean organizations and cultural artists equipped with expertise should vitalize the mutual culture & art exchange projects using internet and communication network.