韓国と日本の大学生は韓日の文化をどのようにとらえているか― 韓国と日本の大学生を対象にしたアンケート調査の結果を中心に ―

Abstract

This paper analyzes the results of questionnaire surveys conducted in 2021 for South Korean and Japanese university students about how they regard the culture of their own country and that of their counterpart. The questionnaire items are as follows: 1. What is your image of Japanese culture? 2. What is your image of South Korean culture? 3. What is your definition of culture? Results based on vocabulary and category are described. The first two words that South Korean university students mostly named for Japanese culture were animation and kimono. The first two words they named for South Korean culture were K-Pop and hanbok. The top answers for Japanese culture and South Korean culture are representative of popular culture for both countries. Japanese university students named Japanese food followed by traditional Japanese clothing for Japanese culture, and kimchee followed by hanbok for South Korean culture. The resulting top answers of Japanese students represented culinary culture, differing from those of the South Korean students. There were also significant differences concerning the categories of traditional culture and traditional performing arts between the two groups of students. Lastly, the survey results concerning culture itself showed that 45.5% of Japanese students perceived culture as that which is “traditional and passed down from ancient (old) times,” while the perception rate of South Korean students of this was 20%, showing that the rate of Japanese students was quite higher.