Empowering North Korean Refugee College Sutdents through Mentoring

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This is a study on a mentoring project engineered to enhance competence and empower North Korean refugee college students (hereinafter referred to as
NKRCS) in South Korean colleges and universities. The study aims to achieve two purposes: the first is to analyze the effects of the mentoring programs for college life and career development; the second is to introduce effective mentoring programs in detail for reproduction. The mentoring programs have two dimensions: one is via peer students, the other is via professionals. At the peer level, mentoring was provided by college students on-campus (called Campus Mentoring), while the professional level mentoring was run by professionals off-campus (called Career Mentoring). The total participants in the project were 67 NKRCS, 15 South Korean students, 11 professionals, 2 supervisors, 3 project directors, and 2 program managers. The NKRCS in the programs revealed a great deal of improvement in academic performance, retention, satisfaction, and career goal development. Both mentees and mentors showed mutual understanding and satisfactory relationship. As a result, most NKRCS showed good academic achievements, registering a zero dropout rate after the summer vacation. Most of them gained a clear view of their ideal occupations and gained realistic ideas on developing career goals. Such findings suggest that the mentoring programs of the project are well-designed and effective for empowerment and enhancement of competence among NKRCS.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Summary
• I. INTRODUCTION
• II. LITERATURE REVIEW
• 1. State of North Korean Refugee College Students in South Korea
• 2. Effects of Mentoring
• III. PROGRAM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
• 1. Characteristics of the Project Participants
• 2. Program Design and Procedures
• 3. Evaluation of the Programs
• IV. RESULTS
• 1. Campus Mentoring for Successful College Life
• 2. Career Mentoring for Career Goal Development
• V. CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES