Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Second-Cycle Longitudial Study on North Korean Migrant Youths' Education (Ⅱ)

This study, "Second-Cycle Longitudinal Study of North Korean Migrant Youths' Education (Ⅱ)", was conducted in order to devise policy plans to help North Korean migrant youths so that they can manage their current lives well in South Korean society as immigrant minorities by identifying the states of their settlement; and to prepare the cornerstone for mutual understanding and coexistence of South and North Koreans in the era of the Korean Peninsula's unification or peaceful coexistence. Followed by the first-cycle longitudinal study of North Korean Migrant Youths' Education, this study was conducted by selecting new subjects of the second-cycle in-depth interview, and collecting and analysing the qualititive data. The subject of the in-depth interview are composed of: North Korean migrant students of 6th grade in elementary school and 3rd grade in middle school; their parents and teachers in charge; and North Korean migrant youths who graduated or dropped out of secondary school.