Type Think tank Website www.kinu.or.kr/eng/ | Headquarters Seoul, South Korea | |
Predecessor Research Institute for National Unification Formation 1990 (founded under the Ministry of Unification) | ||
The Korea Institute for National Unification is a think tank funded by the South Korean government focusing on issues related to Korean reunification.
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History
In 1990, the institute was established as a hub of research on North Korea.
In 2010, the institute carried out an interview with 33 defectors from North Korea and found out that the spread of Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, was one of the main factors encouraging some North Koreans to risk their lives to escape to South Korea.
White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea
the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) opened the Center for North Korean Human Rights, in December 1994, to collect and manage professionally and systematically all source materials and objective data concerning North Korean human rights; and from 1996, KINU has been publishing every year the ‘White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea’ in Korean and in English.