The 19th Unification Academy

This year, Seoul National University IPUS hosted the 19th ‘Unification Academy’. 76 undergraduate
and graduate students interested in Unification and the North Korea issue participated from April 2nd to May 21. The Unification Academy improved understanding and interest among participating students about Unification and North Korea, and was also designed to produce future elites within
a unified Korean Peninsula.

18 students and 5 researchers, or a total of 23 people, visited the DMZ (2019.5.10. – 2019.5.11) during the Academy. Students also visited Dorasan Station, the inter-Korean Transit Office, the Cheorwon Peace Observatory, and the Cheorwon Korean Workers’ Party Headquarters to
experience firsthand the reality of their divided country. It provided opportunities for students to think about plans for a desirable unified Korean Peninsula..

The 19th Unification Academy (2019.4.2-5.21) We also attached the class materials below.

1st week -Unification for Peace (Lee Chan-soo)

2nd week – How far has North Korea become a market? (Kang Chae-yeon)

3rd week – North Korean politics based on the results of the election of representatives of the third and 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (Yoon In-chol)

4th week – The Effect of Inter-Korean Broadcast Culture Exchange: Performance of the Sangji-linked String Orchestra and Moranbong Band (Oh Ki-hyun)

5th week – Is denuclearization and a peace regime possible? (Jeon Jae-sung)

6th week – Experience of Overseas Division: Germany, Ireland, Cyprus (Kim Hak-jae)

7th week – Peace as a condition for North Korea’s development cooperation (Kim Tae-kyun)

8th week – How will we understand the change in North Korea? (Im Kyung-hoon)