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This study focused on ODA(Official Development Assistant) for inter-Korean tourism collaboration and set the research questions as how people perceive the effect of tourism ODA on North Korea and whether their perceptions on the effect are different by their demographic characteristics. The results of the study are following: First, most of respondents were not much interested on ODA, for example, 81.6% have no experience to travel to the developing country and 36% have never participated in international development cooperation and volunteer activities in related area. 30.7% responded that they are indifferent in that topic. Second, the perception on the influence of tourism ODA on the North Korea was identified with five factors from factor analysis: Properness, Effectiveness, Cooperation effect, Environmental effect, and Political effect of tourism ODA. Last, this study figured out that respondents perceived the influence of tourism ODA on North Korea differently by their demographic characteristics: the significant difference was revealed by the grade on perception on the environmental effect of ODA, by their experience on travel to developing country on perception on the properness of ODA. Also, the results of study reveled that the perception on the effectiveness, cooperation effect, and political effect were significantly different by whether they have participated in education and volunteer activity.