남북민간교류의 행위자-네트워크 분석: 2001년 민족통일대축전 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to analyse ‘Nation Unification Festival on August 15th in Pyongyang’ in 2001 based on Actor-Network Theory(ANT). The festival has a several significance. First of all, it was the first event led by a large group of South Korean civilians since the division of Korean peninsula. It was also held at the transition period that inter Korean relations shifted from hostility to reconciliation and cooperation. Despite its constraints of time and space, the Unification Festival was a scene that the different perspectives on Korean division met and made an unexpected conflict. In this article, the interaction between human and non-human actors at the festival is described and how it affected South Korean society is analyzed in three aspects. The festival attempted to shake the existing dynamics related to Korean peninsula division, therefore, it had distinctive features and contents in terms of space and time. These factors are analyzed firstly. Secondly, we look into how the human actors representing South and North Korea respectively at the festival were composed and played a role and how unexpectedly combined non-human actors influenced human actors during the festival. Finally, we study how the division order was revealed in the process of translating the unification festival through its relationship with Korean society This study pursues to understand the actor-network of inter-Korean relations especially in exchanges and cooperations. And it contributes to overcoming the constraints caused by division of two Koreas and promoting stable inter-Korean cooperation.