1st Edition

Public Diplomacy of South Korea

Edited By Kuyoun Chung Copyright 2025
170 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book introduces South Korea’s public diplomacy and identifies and evaluates the goals and corresponding areas of. It discusses implication for the foreign policy of the current Yoon Suk Yeol administration under the competitive geopolitical landscape. By establishing political diplomacy, economic diplomacy, and public diplomacy as the three pillars of its diplomacy, South Korea has... Read more

Chapter 1. South Korea on the Global Stage: Background and Perspectives, Kuyoun Chung and Jeongin Kim; Chapter 2. The Biden Administration’s Values-based Foreign Policy: A Wilsonian Tradition, Boram Kwon; Chapter 3. South Korea’s Middle-Power Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy in the Age of the U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry, Tae-Eun Song; Chapter 4. Competition between South Korea and Japan in Public Diplomacy: Focusing on Their Identity Politics, Eunjung Lim; Chapter 5. A Critical Examination of South Korea’s Public Diplomacy toward China: With Reference to Chinese Perceptions of Korea, Jeong Kyung Seo; Chapter 6. Working for a Peaceful Korean Peninsula: South Korean Unification Public Diplomacy, Wootae Lee; Chapter 7. Overseas Korean Studies Programs as Public Diplomacy: An Empirical Analysis of Tourist and Student Inflows, Ho Youn Koh; Chapter 8. Korean Indie Music Going Abroad and the Creative Turn of the Cultural Policy in Korea, Soochul Kim; Chapter 9. New Horizons for Veterans’ Diplomacy through Public Diplomacy, Mi-Kyoung Ra; Chapter 10. City Diplomacy in South Korea: Trends and Characteristics, Min-gyu Lee; Index

Biography

Kuyoun Chung is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Kangwon National University, the Republic of Korea.