South Korea’s Foreign Aid

Hyo-sook Kim is associate professor of international relations at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. She received Ph.D. in Policy Studies from Nanzan University in Nagoya in 2009. Her research focuses on the domestic impact of international aid norms, ODA policymaking in South Korea and Japan, and South Korea’s official development assistance to Africa. She is co-editor and contributor to Foreign Aid Competition in Northeast Asia (Kumarian/Stylus 2012) and author of "South Korea’s Aid to Africa and Compliance with International Norms," African and Asian Studies, 2017 and "The Political Drivers of South Korea’s Official Development Assistance to Myanmar," Contemporary Southeast Asia, 2018.

1. Introduction and the assumptions of the analysis: South Korea’s foreign aid within the international system and its middle power diplomacy 2. Analytical framework: The domestic politics of foreign aid and South Korea’s middle power diplomacy 3. Determination of ODA policy and domestic politics in South Korea: A case of the enactment and amendment of the Framework Act on International Development Cooperation 4. Sharing the development experience and South Korea’s middle power diplomacy: Saemaul Undong ODA and the role of government organizations 5. Sharing the development experience and the Influence of Political Ideology: The Role of the National Assembly in Promoting the Saemaul Undong ODA 6. South Korea’s ODA in the election sector and the A-WEB: Its multilateral diplomacy and the promotion of democracy 7. Conclusion: Domestic politics of foreign aid and South Korea’s middle power diplomacy