1st, 2nd Policy Meeting by Function

The PUAC held the first and second policy meetings by function on March 5-7 at the Yuseong Hotel in Daejeon under the theme of “Roles and Tasks for Pulling Together Unification Energy during the Transformation Period of Inter-Korean Relations.”

The first policy meeting by function drew PUAC council members from the culture, healthcare and welfare, and education sectors, and the second those from the economy and science, industry and commerce, construction and transportation, agriculture and fisheries, and environment and labor sectors. They had in-depth discussions on each function’s tasks and measures to prepare for reunification.

On the first day, Kim Jum-joon, Director of the Consultation and Advice Bureau, made a business report and Shin Mi-nyeo, standing director of Saejowi, gave a special lecture, which was followed by the keynote lectures and group discussions. 

<Business Report and Special Lecture>

Keynote Lectures were given by Chun Young-sun (first policy meeting), a professor at the Institute of Humanities for Unification at Konkuk University, and Cho Bong-hyun (second policy meeting), chairman of the Economy and Science Standing Committee of the PUAC. They spoke about the respective functions’ unification and North Korea policies and the tasks for preparing for unification.

<Keynote Lectures>

The participants also had a chance to solve problems based on the day’s lectures through the Unification OX Golden Bell quiz event.

<Unification OX Golden Bell>

In the group discussions, the participants divided into tables identified policy issues and concrete action plans for each function. The participants wrote individual policy proposals and developed them into group proposals after the group discussions, which ended their first-day work. 

<Group discussions, policy proposal writing>

The second day of the policy meeting included the “Unification Word Quiz” and “Group Presentations.” The quiz event gave the participants a time to communicate with each other by solving quizzes related to unification and inter-Korean relations. Finally, they shared their ideas for policy proposals through group presentations.

<Unification Word Quiz and Group Presentation>

A vote found that the first group's proposal to build a plan for soft power unification utilizing cultural capital (Group 5) and the second group's proposal to improve the resettlement of North Korean defectors (Group 1) were the most popular.