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CNAPS Presentation

South Korea's Strategic Thinking toward China: From Park Chung Hee to Roh Moo Hyun

Asia, South Korea, Northeast Asia


Event Summary

Fourteen years have passed since the diplomatic normalization between Seoul and Beijing. The term "comprehensive cooperative partnership" forged between South Korea and China clearly understates what is going on between the two countries. Yet, the relationship is becoming more "normal" than special and a wide range of sources of discord have either already surfaced or have been waiting their turn. In this CNAPS Presentation, Professor Chung provided a critical review of the last thirty years of Seoul's "strategic" thinking and dealing with Beijing, spanning the six administrations from Park Chung Hee to Roh Moo Hyun. His presentation offered a timely reflection on the bilateral relationship that is becoming increasingly important for the dynamics in Northeast Asia.

Event Information

When

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Where

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
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Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

Dr. Jae Ho Chung is Professor and Chair of International Relations at Seoul National University, Korea. Professor Chung is the author or editor of ten books, most recently Between Ally and Partner: Korea-China Relations and the United States (Columbia University Press 2006) and Charting China's Future: Political, Social and International Dimensions (Rowman & Littlefield 2006). Dr. Chung was the CNAPS Visiting Fellow from Korea in 2002-2003. He is currently conducting research on China's soft power.

Transcript

DR. JAE HO CHUNG: The presentation today is based on the book that will be published in a month or so. This book is dedicated to two people, one, Professor Jerome Grieder, who was my graduate adviser at Brown University, who used to return to me book review assignments full of suggestions and stylistic comments in red ink every week, and without whom I would not have become who I am today.

The second person I dedicate this book to is Michel Oksenberg, who took me as one of his student corps at the University of Michigan in 1986. He is also the one who reignited my interest in Korea-China relations by enlisting me in the Stanford project on American's changing allies in Asia in 1995. I think I owe a lot to Mike for doing research on this theme, as well as publishing the outcomes as the book.

Having said that, I would like to start my presentation now. This is not exactly a chapter of the book, but it actually encapsulates about three or four chapters of the book. I would like to provide my own assessments of six administrations in South Korea regarding their strategic thinking or strategic thoughts toward China.

Participants

Presenter

Dr. Jae Ho Chung

Professor and Chair, Department of International Relations, Seoul National University, Korea
CNAPS Korea Fellow, 2002-2003


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