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Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

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July 17, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2015)

With the seventieth anniversary of the end of the war and the division of the Korean Peninsula coming up in August, diplomatic challenges continued, especially in South Korea’s […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

Middle Power Diplomacy, National security, OPCON, Regionalism, The China Paradox
May 19, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2015)

The Park administration’s diplomatic strategy was tested in the last two months concerning AIIB and Japan. On AIIB, while Seoul kept silent about its decision before joining as […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

AIIB, historical revisionism, Kono Statement, THAAD
March 18, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2015)

Assessments of the Park administration’s foreign policy Marking the third year of the Park administration, criticism of her foreign policy grew more intense. On March 2, a Chosun […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

Asia-Pacific alliance, TPP, Wendy Sherman
January 12, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2015)

Deepening confrontation between China-North Korea-Russia on one side and South Korea-the United States-Japan on the other was the center of discussion over the last two months. As the […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

Eurasia Initiative, human rights, Korean reunification, Revisionism, sanctions, Yasukuni Shrine
November 10, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2014)

South Korean newspapers have recently focused on parallels in international relations. As they follow developments in Ukraine and Hong Kong and keep their gaze on North Korea, they […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

Agreed Framework, Civilizations, Hong Kong, Regionalism, reorganization of Asia, THAAD, Ukraine
September 12, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2014)

President Park’s “principled diplomacy” has been criticized for a lack of detailed policies. Park set the two diplomatic goals of a “Northeast Asian Peace Process” and a “Korean […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

Apologizing compensation", May 24 restrictions, principled diplomacy, reunification charter, sex slaves, small routes to North Korea, universal human rights and history
July 11, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2014)

Northeast Asia’s geopolitical tensions have intensified and grown more complicated over the past two months. The Cold War-era legacy of contention between South Korea, the United States, and […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

Balanced diplomacy, horizontal and vertical alliance, Kono statement diplomatic record, Park-Xi Summit, serving as a bridge, Xi history speech
May 9, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2014)

President Barack Obama’s late April visits to Asian countries were assessed in Korean papers as an attempt to make the “pivot” to Asia more sophisticated with special emphasis […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

China and Six-Party Talks, Sino-ROK mutual assistance on history issue, Ukraine crisis and North Korea, US-Japan alliance and the pivot
March 7, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2014)

Two themes have been in the forefront in Korean media coverage of international relations in the region: diplomacy related to reunification and ROK-Japan relations. The former was sparked […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

Dokdo /Takeshima, Germany, Germany Reunification, reunions, textbooks, two-Korea policy, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights
January 10, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2014)

Japan was on Korean minds in the final months of 2013, occasionally interrupted by new reasons to recall North Korea’s looming presence. The year ended with less reason […]

Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)

Jang Song-Thaek, military influence, multilateralism, Park-Abe summit, political stability, Yasukuni Shrine