SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho met with the U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea’s human rights and vowed close cooperation to improve Pyongyang’s dismal rights records on Monday. Elizabeth Salmon has been visiting South Korea since last Monday for a nine-day trip to meet with government officials, North Korean defectors [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About 60 percent of South Koreans in their 20s and 30s said unification with North Korea is not necessary, a survey showed Sunday, amid a prolonged impasse in inter-Korean relations and denuclearization talks. The survey, commissioned by a civic media group called Barun Media Citizen Action, found that 61 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of 4 South Korean students think that unification with North Korea is unnecessary, a survey showed Friday. In the online survey of 72,524 elementary, middle and high school students conducted by the education ministry and the unification ministry from Nov. 1 to Dec. 10, 61.2 percent replied [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 44 percent of South Koreans think that reunification with North Korea is necessary, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the poll of 1,200 adults by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University, 44.6 percent replied that unification is necessary, recording the lowest percentage [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Over six out of 10 South Korean youth think that unification with North Korea is necessary, a survey showed Tuesday. In a survey conducted by the education and unification ministries on 68,750 students enrolled in elementary, middle and high schools nationwide from Nov. 2-30 of last year, 62.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a recent chill in inter-Korean relations, more than seven out of 10 citizens living in Seoul still believe that South and North Korea should be unified, a survey showed Wednesday. According to an online poll of 2,000 citizens conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, 74.2 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are less supportive of unification with North Korea than last year, a survey showed Tuesday, amid the protracted impasse in inter-Korean relations and denuclearization negotiations. According to the survey of 1,200 adults commissioned by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University, 53 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Koreans view the need for inter-Korean unification negatively than two years ago, while showing an increasing tendency to treat North Korea as a country to cooperate with, a survey conducted by a state-run think tank showed Wednesday. According to the 2018 survey by the Korea Institute for [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University will open a new graduate major in peace and unification studies that specializes in peace, unification, and North Korean society to foster experts that can effectively address unification as well as post-unification outcomes. The university is planning to create a master’s course on peace and unification [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 North Korean defectors believed inter-Korean unification was very much needed when they lived in the North, according to a poll released Tuesday. The poll, based on interviews with 87 defectors, by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, showed 90.8 percent [...]