A Study on the Cultural Contents Development Model by Inter-Korean Cooperation - With a focus on Digital Encyclopedia of Hangsan-gun

Abstract

South Korea and North Korea have restricted normal people’s contact for about 60 years in accordance with the National Security Law and the Law for Mutual Trade and Cooperation between South and North Korea since ceasefire in 1953.<BR> The South Korean society has developed economy carried out exchanges with other countries, and with growing foreign workers and multicultural families it can approach various cultures all over the world.<BR> In addition, the South Korean has respected individuals’ value and diversity since the pro-democracy movement of the 1980s while the North Korean society has made an idol of father and son Kim Il-sung and Kim Jung-il under the pretext of Juche Idea with isolation from the national community. The two Koreas has not communicated with each other under the different political system for 60 years, so there are concerns regarding heterogenization between South Korea and North Korea and the solutions to restore inter-Korean homogeneity are discussed.<BR> This study looked into possibility to supply and develop unification cultural contents for restoring inter-Korean cultural homogeneity through the compilation cases of Digital Encyclopedia of Hangsan Culture.<BR> Digital Encyclopedia of Hangsan Culture is very meaningful academically to summarize and provide North Korea’s local culture information, and at the same time understand North and South Koreas that are divided for 60 years as well as restore homogeneity. Moreover, Digital Encyclopedia of Hyangsan Culture is the material with summarized cultural asses in North Korea in order for normal people to approach easily. It is regarded to have very high competiveness as a unification culture contents to restore inter-Korean homogeneity.