South Korea’s Role as A Middle Power: Shaping Contemporary Geopolitics in the Region
Keywords:
Shaping Contemporary, South Korea, GeopoliticsAbstract
In the decades following independence, strict authoritarian rule took over the recovery of an embattled nation and its sinking economy in South Korea. The first free national elections took place in 1987, passing control from a dictatorship to the people. After that South Korea becoming the first recipient of OECD Development Assistance Committee funds to later become a donor of the funds with high-tech, service-based economy, as their foreign investment success story. This paper have the aims to get understanding of what Middle Power is and why do they matter in particular case study of South Korea as one of the middle country using some approach and theories in geopolitics. With the main research based on this paper topic, the method used in this study is a descriptive method with a quantitative approach. East Asia is a region marked by conflicts of interest and the threat of nuclear war. The complexity and rivalry of security in this region is particularly played out by the relationship between China and Japan, North Korea and South Korea, as well as the involvement of a superpower, namely the United States from outside the region. Therefore, in the midst of the existing chaos, South Korea took the role of Middle Power trying to reduce tensions in the region.
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