Chapter 06
Meeting the Unfamiliar
Acculturation, North and South, multicultural Korea
01 What Is Cultural Psychology?02 The Korean Heart03 “I” and “We”04 Side by Side05 Happiness and Sinmyeong06 Meeting the Unfamiliar07 Koreans in Korean Society08 Fate and Ritual
In preparation · The essay for this chapter is in preparation. Meanwhile, start with the key papers below — each has a plain summary and an in-depth explainer.
Key papers in this chapter
The studies that became reference points — each opens a plain summary and an in-depth explainer.
The paper traces North Korean culture to Confucian patriarchal familism and a closed socialist system, and proposes directions for the psychological unification of North and South Korea.
The Cultural Characteristics of North Korea and the Psychological Unification of the Two Koreas
한성열2000CH 06Key paper
North Korean defectors' tendency to rate themselves highly depended more on felt support from people around them and on optimism than on culture, and its link to adjustment differed between men and women.
Influence of North Korean Defectors' self-enhancement bias to their psychological adaptation in South Korea
채정민, 한성열2003CH 06Key paper
North Korean defectors feel large cultural differences between North and South early in their settlement, but what matters is not the difference itself — it is whether they cope by embracing South Korean culture.
North Korea-South Korea cultural heterogeneity in psychological perspective: Focusing on the North Korean defectors' adaptation
채정민, 이종한2004CH 06Key paper
What came after
Koreans accept women who immigrate through marriage as neighbors, friends and fellow Koreans, but are still reluctant to accept them as their own spouse or their child's spouse — and contact with foreigners improves attitudes.
Korean People's Understanding on Female Marriage-based Immigrants in Korea
남순현2012CH 06Since 2010
How do North Korean defectors see marriage migrant women, children of multicultural families, and foreign workers? Satisfaction with one's own life fostered positive views, while seeing them as competitors for resources and feeling discriminated against fostered negative ones.
The Factors Influencing the North Korean Defectors' Attitude to Multicultural Groups in South Korea
양계민2015CH 06Since 2010