한국윤리교육학회

This research aimed to conduct an empirical study on the unification consciousness of many and unspecified persons for the purpose of complementing the limits of the existing quantitative method using unification consciousness survey. Research subjects were targeted at seven internet community sites in order to obtain opinions from many and unspecified persons, and the deducted materials were classified and analyzed via phenomenological qualitative research method. The investigation period of research materials extended from January to May of 2017, primarily 1008 comments, ultimately 309 comments were collected as research materials. The universal consensus of unification consciousness derived from the research process has been largely classified into five categories and seventeen subjects. The five categories were economic, systematic, ethnic, diplomatic and imperialistic. There were four proposed opinions considering the five categories of unification consciousness. Firstly, it was about reconsideration on unification benefit calculation, which is presented as a basis for unification by unification education. Secondly, it was about reconsideration on evidence to present the ethnic identity make known the appropriateness of unification. Thirdly, it was about securing confidence in the government’s unification policy. Fourthly, it was about the necessity of designing a new unification education goal which centers around learner’s ability.