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A Study On Change And Determinants Of South Koreans' Perceptions Of Unification, Seong Koo Ham Jan 2017

A Study On Change And Determinants Of South Koreans' Perceptions Of Unification, Seong Koo Ham

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South Koreans’ interest in and aspirations for unification have decreased recently. This decrease of desires for unification is one of the obstacles to achieve unification. This study analyzes the change of South Koreans’ perceptions of unification and examines various factors that affect those perceptions toward unification. I use unification perceptions survey data from 2007 to 2014 collected by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies Seoul National University.

The dependent variables of this study are perceptions of the necessity of unification and the possibility of unification. Independent variables are classified into four types. They are expected benefit factors, the political …