The use of big data needs to be emphasized in policy formulation by public officials in order to improve the transparency of government policies and increase efficiency and reliability of government policies. ‘Hye-Ahn’, a government-wide big data platform was built with this goal, and the subscribers of ‘Hye-Ahn’ has grown significantly from 2,000 at the end of 2016 to 100,000 at August 2018. Additionally, the central and local governments are expanding their big data related budgets. In this study, we derived the costs and benefits of ‘Hye-Ahn’ and used them to conduct an economic feasibility analysis. As a result, even if only some quantitative benefits are considered without qualitative benefits, the net present value, the benefit/ cost, and internal rate of return turned out to be 22,662 million won, 2.3213, and 41.8%, respectively. Since this is larger than the respective comparison criteria of 0 won, 1.0, and 5.0%, it can be seen that ‘Hye-Ahn’ has had economic feasibility. As noticed earlier, the number of analysis using ‘Hye-Ahn’ is increasing, so it is expected that the benefits will increase as time passes. Finally, the socioeconomic value gained when the results of analysis using ‘Hye-Ahn’ are used in policy is expected to be significant.

본 연구는 빅데이터를 통해 남북통일에 관한 한국 사회의 인식을 분석 하고 그를 통한 함의를 도출하여 미래 한반도 통일에 관한 시사점을 얻 고자 하였다. 이를 위해 2003년부터 2022년 5월까지, 역대 4개 정부를 분석대상 기간으로 구분 설정하고 포털 및 언론보도 빅데이터 총 115,975건의 데이터를 수집하여 텍스트마이닝과 사회연결망 분석을 수행 하였다. 연구 결과, 정부 시기별 통일에 관한 사회적 인식의 특성을 확인 하였으며 외교, 정치, 군사, 경제, 사회·문화 측면의 공통 키워드를 도출 하여 그에 따른 한반도 통일에 관한 발전적 방향을 제언하였다.