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	Korea-Germany Joint Academic Symposium held to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of German Reunification
	관리자		1249		2016.01.20

<img style="margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto;" alt="" src="ArticleFile.do?id=11648612" /> On October 16, 2015, the Institute of Humanities for Unification at Konkuk University (KU) co-hosted a joint academic symposium with the Institute of Korean Studies at the Free University of Berlin as well as the SSK Research Group at the University of North Korean Studies. Under the theme of “Critical Reception of Germany’s Reunification Experience to Political Transition and Integration in the Korean Peninsula,” the symposium invited twelve German scholars, including Dr. Eun-Jeung Lee from the Free University of Berlin and Dr. Rainer K. Silbereisen of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, to discuss the similarities and differences between Korea and Germany, and hence, seek a better solution for reunification of the peninsula.
The symposium was composed of three sections—economics and business, politics and public policy, and sociology and psychology—with seven presentations in total. For the economics and business section, the presenters discussed the conditions of self-employed businesses during the transitional stage in East Germany and its implication to the Korean Peninsula, management of SMEs, and the labor market. The following section addressed the role of elites during the transitional period and process of reunification as well as the regionalized political and administrative decision-making model. During the final section, participants discussed the social structure and generational issues as well as the role of Germany’s social-political transition and implications to the Korean Peninsula.

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