South Korea’s New Southern Policy and the Search for a New Regionalist Strategy in the Emerging Indo-Pacific Era

Choi, Young Jong

doi:10.18013/jnar.2019.34.1.001

This study attempts to explore strategic implications of South Korea’s ‘New Southern Policy’, offer evaluation of its actual implementation, and suggest policy recommendations for improvement in the future. The South Korean government is advised to link its ‘New Southern Policy’ with a new comprehensive regionalist strategy in order to find an exit to its deadlocked ‘New Northern Policy’, to avoid a risky situation to choose either the US or China, and to find a regionalist solution to the so-called ‘Korean peninsula problem’. The emerging Indo-Pacific era has brought geopolitics back into the region, and South Korea needs a new regionalist policy to establish a rule-based regional order. The South Korean government needs to overcome its ego-centric, overly nationalistic foreign policy orientation and pursue a genuine middle power diplomacy representing common regional goals as well as universal values and interests. By so doing, South Korea can attain broad support for its foreign policy initiatives and improve the chance to bring peace and prosperity to the Korean peninsula.

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