South Korea's State-led Soft Power Strategies: Limits on Inter-Korean Relations

Watson, Iain

doi:10.1080/02185377.2012.748972

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“…South Korea, along with Russia and China, clearly pursue a predominantly state-led soft power strategy alongside the more informal cultural Hallyu described above. Watson [37] (p. 314) rightly suggests that South Korea's global brand ' . .…”

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Understanding South Korea’s Use of Sports Mega-Events for Domestic, Regional and International Soft Power

2021

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This paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on ‘soft power’ by focusing on East Asia as a region gaining in political and economic significance; equally, we highlight the role sports mega-events play in the region’s most powerful states’ soft power strategies. For the purpose of this paper, we focus on South Korea’s soft power strategy and how the hosting of major sporting events has become a central part of this. We introduce both a novel tripartite approach to the study of the motives behind hosting sports mega-events, along with new, empirical data on the chosen case of South Korea. Our findings strengthen the notion that an explanation of why states seek to host major sports events can be better understood by considering the domestic, regional and international dimensions to capture the complexities behind such decisions.

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“…cit. ; Iain Watson, “South Korea's State‐Led Soft Power Strategies: Limits on Inter‐Korean Relations,” Asian Journal of Political Science , 20 (2012), pp. 304–325.…”

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A League of their Own: Female Supporters ofHallyuandKorea–Japan Relations

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Lee²

2014

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Many researchers agree that Hallyu (the Korean Wave) has been pivotal in promoting a positive Korean national image worldwide, including in Japan, due to Hallyu's unique cultural power, which has touched the hearts of many female fans. However, scholars disagree on the effectiveness of Hallyu as a reliable soft power for Korean public diplomacy. The attractiveness of Hallyu seems to have decidedly waned in Japan amid the emergence of the second Abe cabinet, which did not curtail routinized large-scale anti-Hallyu demonstrations in Tokyo. Simultaneously, the Abe government is strongly asserting Japan's new identity as a normal state that could maintain a standing army, while openly engaging in territorial disputes with neighbors and denying wartime atrocities through routine cabinet-level visits to the Yasukuni Shrine. We argue, however, that Hallyu soft power has an enduring impact on the large number of female supporters of Hallyu in Japan, including Abe's spouse, by empowering them in politics and international relations as a new feminine power group. Unlike the traditional patrimonial households, where Japanese fathers inculcate a strong sense of anti-Korea discourse in their children, the new Hallyu "moms" are now decidedly training their children to be politically neutral and culturally appreciative of Korea. We find that Hallyu, as a cultural alternative to the male-dominated Japanese pop culture, is gaining unremitting popular support among Japanese women who are disgruntled over Japan's "lost decades."

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Mass Media Instrumentalization in Foreign Policy of States: Russian Strategic Toolset

Mareš

2021

The Russian Federation in Global Knowledge Warfare

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South Korea's State-led Soft Power Strategies: Limits on Inter-Korean Relations

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Understanding South Korea’s Use of Sports Mega-Events for Domestic, Regional and International Soft Power

Understanding South Korea’s Use of Sports Mega-Events for Domestic, Regional and International Soft Power

A League of their Own: Female Supporters ofHallyuandKorea–Japan Relations

Mass Media Instrumentalization in Foreign Policy of States: Russian Strategic Toolset

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