체제전환과 법교육 - 헝가리의 경험 -

The regime of a state is a system of rules. Regime change(regime transition) brings about, more or less, fundamental changes in the standards and ways of life in the community. Such a regime change is followed by serious political issues and legal tasks. Therefore the role of law is very important in the course of regime transition and law related education is necessary for the institutionalization of the transformation. Nowadays law related education is understood as a part of the democratic civic education. This paper aims at knowing what lessons we can get from the democratic citizenship education of Hungary which experienced a regime change in a relatively short period. Hungary was the first country which abandoned the socialist system in the eastern Europe in the 1990s. However, it is questionable whether the Hungarian regime transition has been institutionalized in the norm and in the practice. Many scholars point out that Hungary has failed to equip the young generation with the liberal democratic values. In other words, it can be said that the youth have not received civic education including law-related education enough to be well-equipped democratic citizens. When the reunification of South and North Korea comes to be a reality, it will be urgent to prepare a system of law-related education for North Korean residents in order to facilitate a regime change in the regions of North Korea. To do so, it is very important to equip the North Korean living now in the South Korea as potential teachers of law-related education for North Korean residents in the future.