Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204820 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 25-2019
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
Many of North Korean refugees in South Korea struggle to reconcile their different identities of: being a Korean who shares ethnicity with South Koreans vs. being a North Korean who fled from an estranged neighboring country. This paper shows that emphasizing the Korean unity can help their integration in South Korea, despite considerable differences caused by seven-decade long separation between the North and the South. The results of a behavioral experiment with 130 North Korean refugees conducted in this study suggest that the unified Korean identity stimulates the refugees' social trust with South Koreans, cooperation in South Korea, and their self-confidence.
Subjects: 
North Korean Refugees
Identity
Social Trust
Cooperation
Confidence
Integration
JEL: 
D91
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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