탈북자의 상처와 치유

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to look at the wounds suffered by North Korean refugees and to prepare measures to heal them. First, we examined the reality of mass production of North Korean defectors and examined why North Koreans are forced to defect. Next, I examined the pain and hurts that North Korean residents suffered during the process of defecting and the process of settlement after defecting. The refugees wear many wounds, from the escape to the settling, and after the settling, including the confusion of the identity in the change of environment and the trials inside and outside. It is meaningful to have experience of healing prior to confusion which will happen to the North and South Koreans after unification. This article suggests that Christianity and Buddhism in South and North Korea can play their own roles in the process of healing the wounds of the refugees. Unification is not something to be covered only in the politics and economy. There must be a policy and consideration for people who are subjects of politics and who are subjects of the economy. Healing and caring for members of the South and the North who are wounded in the process of unification are most important in the policy of unification.