Documentos CIDOB Asia, 20
2008 will be a key year for the two Koreas, with South Korea already the 13th largest world economy and the fourth largest in Asia, after Japan, China and India. Sixty years after the creation, in 1948, of the two antagonistic states on the Korean peninsula, crucial steps may be about to be taken toward the signing of a definitive peace treaty that can lead to the future (albeit the distant future) reunification of the two countries. This study analyses the main political, economic and social challenges that the new South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will have to tackle decisively in order for the Republic of Korea to consolidate its position as a medium-level power in Northeast Asia. Within the current framework of globalisation, South Korea is aiming to become a Knowledge Society and a world leader in the sector of information technologies and communications.
Jaume Giné Daví
Lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at ESADE.
ISSN: 1696-9987 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-381X (online edition)
91 pp.
Jaume Giné Daví
Date of publication: 03/2008
Issue price: 8 €