통일을 향한 한반도 민족주의

Abstract

South and North Koreas have a big pain known as the division of Korea caused by the colonial regime and war. Both countries have had transformed national consciousness and culture for a long period of time due to an ideological conflict. They could not perform ancestral ideas (i.e. the thought of Dong-hak) "Acknowledge and respect counterparts" in the meantime,as the co-existence of two systems has defined the counterparts as enemy and denounced them, and treated other nations in the same idealogical system considerately over the Korean people, and have not acknowledged the same race living in a different ideological system. The South and North have inflicted great mischief on each other that destructs traditional ethnic nationalism. However, despite the transformed historical conception, both countries have prioritized unification for an appropriate task at all times. Although both countries have different ideologies, traditional ethnicity is deep-rooted in mind. It does not mean a different ideology does not affect the ethnicity at all, but this cannot hamper unification of two Koreas. However, as their divided history has continued like this, it causes a concern that accumulated differences in terms of social characteristics might corrupt ethnic consciousness. From now on, as Korean, when we represent traditional nationalism as unification ideology nationalism, the South and North will collect each other's nationalism in an expansive, developmental manner. They also will seek a way to homogeneity of ethnic culture, a sense of unity as a member of Korean, and sharing history, based on ethnicity that removes ideological conflicts and competitions between two countries. Before ethnic conscience aiming for the unification era, anarbitrary argument and exclusive logic that absolutize a certain idea or ideology are required to draw back. In other words, for the best interest that two Koreans will have in common, an argument and logic that prioritizes self-centered interests of a certain class or region are required to draw back.