재일한국인의 한국어 학습 경험과 아이덴티티의 상관관계에 대한 연구

Abstract

This study considered the correlation between Korean learning experience and identity targeting the third generation Korean-Japanese who have Korean learning experience through the on-site survey in both Korea and Japan, and analyzed changes of identity after Korean learning and its directivity. This study conducted an in-depth interview by selecting 6 person among the participants in the questionnaire survey. After asking a question about their growth background, social living environment, the language in use at home, and motive of beginning Korean learning, and analyzed whether there was a change in their identity before/after Korean learning in-depth. As a result, this study found that survey objects’growth background and living environment in Japan work as a far bigger factor than a country, or an institution where people experienced Korean learning. In short, the growth background and living environment work on identity formation of survey objects, and the identity formed that way could change into the virtuous direction, and even the reverse direction mediated by Korean learning experience. Accordingly, this study can make a conclusion that it is acknowledged there exists a correlation between the third generation’s identity and Korean learning experience, and the survey objects’ growth background and living environment as well as a voluntary motive of Korean learning, etc. work as a factor in the change of identity.