obtained from questionnaire is important and results of in-depth interviews
were only partly utilized. As the disappearance is in close connection with
those cases of repatriation from China, information obtained from in-depth
interviews were used as necessary and adequate.
Table 1-5
Survey on Disappearance (Questionnaire and Interview)
Classification
SocioDemographic
Background and
Personal
Identification
Items Surveyed for Disappearance
Name, gender, date of birth, date of arrival in South Korea,
place of birth/residence/education/type of work and role of
witness/marital status/family in North Korea, date of the last
defection from North Korea, present conditions of physical and
mental health, present address, present family, present
employment and etc.
Witness
or
hearsay
of
disappearance,
witness
to
disappearance by period, frequency of hearsay, victim of
Cases of
Disappearance
disappearance, the organizations or perpetrators responsible
for disappearance, when and where of disappearance, process
of final disappearance including charges against the victim,
response from the family, impact on the family, circumstance of
witness and etc.
Acts
causing
disappearance,
perpetrator/method
of
Knowledge of
disappearance, knowledge of residents on the disappearance,
Disappearance
impact on neighbors and their reaction, impact on the family of
victim, connection of disappearance to PPC
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