According to a survey’s results, 36 percent of South Korean students  imagine peace and reconciliation emerging from Korean unification, up slightly from last year.

South Korea’s Ministry of Unification (MoU) and Ministry of Education (MoE) conducted the survey on unification education in schools, asking questions of 119,551 students. They surveyed students and teachers in elementary, middle and high schools from October 5 to November 17, as they did last year, when they surveyed 116,000 students.

Their main questions were about images of unification, perceptions of North Korea and unification education.

“63.1 percent of students responded they feel the necessity of