탈북 새터민들의 상황과 한국교회의 역할 모색 (The Situation of North Korean Defectors and Roles of Korean Church)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 연세대학교 한국기독교문화연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 신학논단 / 60권 / 135 ~ 158페이지
· 저자명 : 정종훈

초록

As of September, 2009, the number of the North Koreans who ended up living in South Korea after fleeing from their regime reached 17,134.
The number is continuously increasing year after year, and is expected that a total of around 100,000 North Koreans would find their new home in the South by 2016. Although there are people seeing this phenomenon as an economic burden that the South Koreans have to carry, it should be considered that those North Koreans, in fact, provide with an opportunity for the reunification, since they would be the ones well capable of bridging the growing socio-cultural gap between the South and the North since the division of the peninsula. They are, therefore, our companions for the reunification.
When we, as the members of the Korean Church seeking the improvement of their living qualities in the South, recognize the above aspect and the necessity for the co-existence, it is imperative to reexamine the situations they are confronting, i.e., the degree of their successes in readjusting to and surviving in the new environment, the extent of systematic institutional supports, as well as the impediments to their smooth transition.
Consequently, four suggestions are thereby proposed at present for the sake of the Korean Church: first, to promote programs to educate the Korean Christians on the current situation of the North Korean defectors as well as their potentialities; second, to challenge Korean Christians to reach out to the North Koreans in need; third, to methodically facilitate educational programs for their growth in faith and to more efficiently provide them with pastoral counseling; fourth, to establish a network of the churches ministering to the North Koreans for a more effective ministry through mutual cooperation.

영어초록

As of September, 2009, the number of the North Koreans who ended up living in South Korea after fleeing from their regime reached 17,134.
The number is continuously increasing year after year, and is expected that a total of around 100,000 North Koreans would find their new home in the South by 2016. Although there are people seeing this phenomenon as an economic burden that the South Koreans have to carry, it should be considered that those North Koreans, in fact, provide with an opportunity for the reunification, since they would be the ones well capable of bridging the growing socio-cultural gap between the South and the North since the division of the peninsula. They are, therefore, our companions for the reunification.
When we, as the members of the Korean Church seeking the improvement of their living qualities in the South, recognize the above aspect and the necessity for the co-existence, it is imperative to reexamine the situations they are confronting, i.e., the degree of their successes in readjusting to and surviving in the new environment, the extent of systematic institutional supports, as well as the impediments to their smooth transition.
Consequently, four suggestions are thereby proposed at present for the sake of the Korean Church: first, to promote programs to educate the Korean Christians on the current situation of the North Korean defectors as well as their potentialities; second, to challenge Korean Christians to reach out to the North Koreans in need; third, to methodically facilitate educational programs for their growth in faith and to more efficiently provide them with pastoral counseling; fourth, to establish a network of the churches ministering to the North Koreans for a more effective ministry through mutual cooperation.

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