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Determinants and Characteristics of the Middle Class in North Korea: Focusing on the Survey of North Korean Defectors
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북한 중간계층의 결정요인과 특성: 북한이탈주민의 설문조사를 중심으로

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Academic journal
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Eunmee Jeong (서울대학교 통일평화연구원)
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서울대학교 통일평화연구원 통일과 평화 통일과 평화 제7권 제2호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2015.12
Pages
74 - 109 (36page)

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Determinants and Characteristics of the Middle Class in North Korea: Focusing on the Survey of North Korean Defectors
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This article aims to find out the factors to determine the middle class in North Korea and to explain the constitutive characters of social classes and social attributes appearing in lifestyle of the middle class. As a result of analysis, it was founded that social differentiation and inequality is significantly underway in North Korea. Discordance between social strata measured by the objective indicators and ones classified as subjective belonging appears very clearly, especially the discordance is heavily on the middle class. In addition, hierarchical differentiation of North Korean society is a tendency to increase at the same time, upper and lower layers. Job variable is a significant one of social and economic factors that determine the class position. In particular, job variable shows clearly the difference between social layers in the subjective strata than in the objective ones. Hierarchical differentiation due to socio-cultural factors appears evidently. A gap between social tiers appears clearly in consumption and information environment as well as life. The lifestyle of the upper class is fairly consistent and homogeneous, while the lifestyle of the middle class shows a relatively heterogeneous aspect. As a result, there is a mid-tier as economic status in North Korea, but the middle classes with homogeneous components and social attributes have not been formed yet.

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