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초록

This study is about North Koreans language assimilation process in South Korea. one hundred North Koreans participated in language test and answered survey questions. Using the data, two regression models are built; 1) the model that estimates the impact of 10 factors such as education and TV watching hours on accuracy/fluency 2) the model that estimates the impact of language skill(accuracy/fluency) on self evaluated adjustment level. It is found from the first model that the educational background plays the most important role in accuracy/fluency of South Korean language. From the second model, it is found that language skills, as represented as accuracy/fluency, do have impacts on the chance of getting any income. This indirectly supports the hypothesis that better language skill helps the adjustment process of North Koreans in South Korean society.

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