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This essay aims to provide a critical view of South Korean intellectuals and unification policy makers who stress the undisputed role of nationalism, across the diverse ideo-logical spectrums, in constructing ‘inter-Korea’ reconciliation in South Korean society. They contend that meanings of counter-hegemonic practice against anti-North Korean ideology are already determined within the politics of national identification. However, this mode of thinking remains a predicament of the South Korean public’s critical engagement with the way in which a moral claim to national identification is conflated with inter-Korea economic collaboration along the lines of neo-liberalism. But I also want to illuminate the connection that neo-liberalism and new conservatism in South Korea make in the attempt to help anti-North Koreanism survive democratic challenges. My critical evaluation of the connection suggests a discursive condition of what I call ‘inter-Korea sociability’, in which the South Korean public can appropriate social and historical claims about the inter-Korea relationship that range from the atrocious and violent events in the war to the so-called North Korean human rights crisis. I argue that two Koreas’ reconciliation can come through resisting the romanticization of Koreans’ own normative commitment to idealized national authenticity and liberal human rights.

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ABSTRACT
 RECONCILIATION AS A COMMITMENT TO CRITICAL ANALYSIS FROM WITHIN US
 TWO CRITICAL DIMENSIONS OF 'INTER-KOREA'
 TOWARD A POSSIBILITY OF INTER-KOREA SOCIABILITY
  (1) The Otherizing of North Koreans
  (2) Reconciliation in the North Korean Human Rights Crisis
 CONCLUDING REMARKS
 REFERENCES

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• MINKYU SUNG [ 성민규 | 울산과학기술대학교 ]

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