North and South Korea today live on totally different ideologies. The North has adopted a communist government, while the South runs a capitalist government. The governments on each side wish to unite

As some Koreans believe that unification is a must, other Koreans see themselves as belonging to one of two Koreas rather than from Korea as a whole. A good example of this is in Lee Mun-Yeoul. When the two brothers meet each other, they begin to discuss about how life is in their own country. They eventually start bragging and start lying about their own country is so much better than the other. They both view their own side as the superior one, and the other country is an alien and maybe inferior country. In fact the brother from the North did not even wish to see his brother, he just did so to confirm whether his suspicions on how South Koreans behave are true or not. The literature piece describes people as feeling some sort of enmity to the other country, blaming it for the hardships they are enduring. I believe the reason for this is because since these brothers are a younger generation, they are born already with the notion that the other country is some foreign nation. The older generations may believe that unification is a must, but maybe this point is not seen with younger generation, especially those who have not studied much about their own history. Another example is that of the North Korean general who enters the room where the four Koreans were hanging out. He would have never agreed that the South Korean soldiers were his “brothers”. He would have also felt that the people in the South are of a foreign nation, and he himself belongs to the North.

the country, but both wish to see it happen in their own ways. The North, for example, has invaded the South on more than one occasion, trying to implement a communist government on the entire peninsula. The South would like to see the whole Korean peninsula united as a capitalist country. However, costs of unification are indeed high, and some predict it will be a more difficult process than the unification of East and West Germany. There are several reasons for this. According to an article entitled “The Cost of Unification – German lessons for Korea”, several of the factors that made unification costly for the two Germanys would be multiplied several times for the unification of the two Koreas. Cheap migrant labor from the communist side offset the German economy for a period of time, and in North Korea the cheap labor would be several times the amount that of East Germany. Secondly, the economic differences between the two Germanys were less than that of the two Koreas. Thirdly, East Germany used to interact with foreign nations to some degree with international economic exchanges. North Korea on the other hand is totally isolated from the rest of the world. Still today East Germany is far behind its West counterpart in terms of economic development.

North and South Korea were divided almost 60 years ago, and it doesn’t seem as though their unification is near or far. Indeed, as in the case of East and West Germany it is impossible to tell whether or not the two Korea’s will ever be united. The longer the two nations stay apart, the harder it would be in the future for the two Korea’s to unite. Si

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