남북한 사회통합 - 노동시장과 사회적 안전망 관련법의 통합을 중심으로

Abstract

‘Social Integration’ between South and North Korea is the ‘key motivation’ for the integration of two different systems and most difficult ‘untimate purpose’ to achieve. Beside the discussion on the so-called system-integration (political and economical), any unification could not be the genuine one without ‘value integration’ and ‘social integration’. Periodically, the debate on the social integration since the early 1990s, it could be devided in three times. The first one was the period between the end of cold war, the historical german unification and the ‘Basic Agreement between two Koreas 1992’ and thereafter until 1997. The second one was the expansion time of exchange cooperation, in which the Kim Dae-Jung and Noh Moo-Hyun governments began to initiate the reconciliation under the so-called “Sunshine Policy” or “Engagement Policy” against the formerly confrontation policy between two Koreas. The third one is the returned age of conflict and confrontation due to the repeated tests of nuclear and inter-continental missiles at the side of North Korea, which resulted into the frustrating shutdown of the Kaesung Industrial Complex. The important issue in Korea has been the urgent integration of the increasing refugees from North Korea into the South Korean Society, instead of the social integration between two Koreas. The article prospects the future of social integration of the two different systems on the making of labour market and the building of social safety net under the ‘revised market economy’. Especially, it stresses on the making of ‘social state’ or ‘welfare state’ under the principle of strong ‘social solidarity’. At the same time, the article examines the basic principles to be kept in the labour market. The following points should be checked up such as the object of social benefit and its proper level, the forms of benefits and their durations, including the method of accounting and the delivery system of social services etc. In conclusion, the article emphasizes first the integration of the refugees into the south korean society, secondly, the emergency relief system and building of financial funds for the socially vulnerable groups, finally the ‘gradual’ approach from the relatively similar spheres to the most difficult one.