한국의 차세대 한인네트워크 사업에 대한 비판적 검토와 개선방안

Abstract

This paper aims at analysing on the Korea government’s policies on building network for overseas Korean second generations in terms of complex network and weak ties based on social network theories. Thus it is to draw the government’s policy alternatives for managing and supporting the networks. Korean government’s policies for building overseas young Korean networks show some limitations such as one-off thing invitation program, lack of follow ship programs for participants, failure in seeking and organizing new members, and over-concentration of network participants from the Americas. In this context,the author insists following measures for improvement of network projects. Firstly, the government should seek to reinforce localization of future generation networks and organically link the older generation Koreans to younger ones as well as Korean government and the next generations abroad. Secondly, as Granovetter supposed, the ‘weak ties’ networks shown among overseas Korean young peoples can play important roles in linking the older Korean societies to mainstreams ones. Thirdly, it is important to build the online networks as a hub of global Korean future generations who closely familar to IT and strengthen each communities based on their own business and interests. Finally,the government is to strengthen the competition powers of future generation in the world through stage by stage approaches and gradually transform the policies to local-oriented.