개성공단 북한 근로자의 정체성 인식과 행동 양식의 메커니즘

Abstract

This study analyzes recognition of identity and mechanism of behavior pattern of North Korean Workers at the Kaesong industrial complex. The research materials were obtained through in-depth interviews with five South Korean workers stationed and spent everyday life with North Korean workers at the Kaesong industrial complex at least for a few years. In the results of the research, North Korean workers at the Kaesong industrial complex experience both socialism and capitalism and respond actively the changes, and, in the process, they make themselves’interest and form a new identity. Recognition of identity and behavior of North Korean workers at the Kaesong industrial complex are regulated by socialist discipline and labor laws. They define themselves’identity not as workers employed in South Korean company but as ones belonged to North Korean company. But Cracks appear gradually in their thinking and identity. North Korean workers’living forms of deviant actions are embedded in North Korean society’s deficiency and contradiction not originate in the problems of Kaesong industrial complex. That South Korean companies supply North Korean workers with various incentives voluntarily is simply not a paternal good-will but a strategy of capitalist labor control to improve labor productivity and to sustain a low-wage policy.