A Study of the Public’s Sincere Apology Acceptance and Political Attitude on Public Conflict Resolution in South Korea

This paper analyzes the effect of the public’s acceptance of sincere governmental apology and their political attitude regarding public conflict resolution in South Korea. Specifically, this study examines the role of conflict types - such as interest conflict and value conflict - in the conflict resolution process. The findings confirm that independent variables such as the public’s acceptance of a sincere governmental apology1 and their political attitude have a significant effect on willingness to cooperate in situations of public conflict resolution. The results reveal differences between these two types of conflict when the interaction effect of independent variables is considered; for example, this effect is significant in interest conflict, but not significant in value conflict. Implications of the results are also discussed.