보훈선양을 통한 국민통합정책 고찰: 경상남도 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

The policy for patriot and veterans affairs is roughly divided into compensation and enhancement schemes. The compensation policy aims to provide financial rewards to promote the dignified lives of men of national merit and their bereaved families who sacrificed or contributed to the nation. In contrast, the enhancement policy fosters the people’s patriotism by widely improving and developing them through various symbolic measures. These policies contribute to national integration by cultivating the people’s love for the nation themselves and willingness to serve at their own expense in the crisis of the state and the society. Meanwhile, the government has been promoting veterans’ policies to foster patriotism by encouraging the noble spirit of love of the national merit. It has been required to establish systematic measures with improved efficiency. Accordingly, the cases of enhancements for veterans from local governments in Gyeongnam were analyzed for this study. In addition, the policy for patriot and veterans affairs from the advanced countries such as the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, and Germany were investigated. As a country near the Korean Peninsula, Russia, China, Japan, and certain security environment countries like Israel and Switzerland suggested developing veterans promotion policies through comparative analysis. It aims to ultimately create an approach for patriot and veterans affairs to pave the way for national integration. Therefore, this paper reveals that the national integration for the unification is possible when a culture respecting the sacrifices and contribution to the country of veterans in everyday life is settled in society by educating and analyzing each country’s enhancement systems for patriots and veterans affairs.