북한이탈주민 지원체계로서의 기독교의 역할

Abstract

The lives of North Korean defectors, who are waiting for the reunification of the two Koreas, are important not only for the government but also for society and the education community. Responsibility for North Korean defectors who have been welcomed while preparing for reunification should be given not only to the administrators but also to the citizens and the religious community who live together. In this study, we considered the role of Christianity, which steadily provides humanitarian assistance to areas that cannot be solved by politics alone. Christianity, represented by the "Community of Love," has served as a haven for North Korean defectors, especially churches, and the attention and substantial support of the church and its officials have helped in part. However, it is time to deal with what Christianity should be like for those who have faced difficulties such as the chaos of denying the North Korean system, in which North Korean defectors were born and grown up, and the environment of suffering from exclusion and discrimination in South Korea. The most important thing is to treat them with pure and heartfelt love in accordance with the teachings of the Bible, and to lead them to natural harmony and integration, not separation and exclusion. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary for the south Korean churches to establish a Christian relationship beyond physical assistance and compensation for North Korean defectors. Second, the south Korean churches should properly recognize the problems caused by the heterogeneous system of the Two Koreans and ask the civil society and the government to prepare for practical support and measures for survival issues. Third, it is necessary for the governments and the communities to share overall resources and coordinate roles about supporting them instead of supporting for the North Korean defectors individually and competitively. Fourth, a model of a self-support community should be developed and nurtured so that North Korean defectors can break away from the dependency. Fifth, the research and support measures for the youth of the North Korean defectors, the future joint generation, should be carried out. Furthermore, the south Korean church officials must be a mediator to connect North Korean defectors with South Korean society centered on faith. They need to give the opportunities for the well-established North Korean defectors to help other defectors. And they must be first changed and go into the society in order to integrate with the general public. In the end, we must move toward integration, not separation. A justifiable separation may be a little easier, but our direction is to "together." We will lay the groundwork for the next research by presenting the need for "integration in everyday life" and "complete acceptance and inclusion" that are no different from the way we live in our lives.