SOUTH KOREAN TRADE AND DIPLOMACY TRENDING AWAY FROM CHINA Mixed signals BY SCOTT SNYDER AND SEE-WON Prime Minister Han Duck-soo’s September BYUN 2023 visit to China was the first by a South Scott Snyder (ssnyder@keia.org) will assume the role of Korean prime minister in over four years and president of the Korea Economic Institute of America in generated expectations in South Korea that Xi Washing. [...] The signing of the MOU is even issue with the proposition that South Korea will more salient in light of reports that the Chinese be able to induce greater respect from China Ministry of State Security attempted to hack based on closer relations with the United States South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and and Japan, asserting that South Korea has infiltrated the computer network of the ins. [...] reflected in the shift in South Korea’s trade relations: The United States became South Park Jin met Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Korea’s number one export destination in trilateral China-Japan-South Korea foreign December 2023, surpassing China for the first ministers’ meeting in Busan at the end of time since 2004. [...] If such trends continue, South Korea The Chinese readout reported Wang’s in 2024 may have the distinction of being the description of changes in the international and only country adjacent to China for which China regional landscapes and their impact on China- is not its number one trade partner. [...] drawing away from China’s geoeconomic orbit as South Korean investment in the United Chinese and South Korean readouts of the States reinforces the geopolitical choices of the trilateral meeting with Japanese Foreign Yoon administration.
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