Archives South Korea and China - New Eastern Outlook

The concluding text on Sino-South Korean relations will focus on the challenges in cultural interactions, where even pandas can spark outrage.

Continuing the story of relations between Seoul and Beijing, we shall here discuss the high-profile spy scandals of 2024, which were not limited to cases of industrial espionage or military intelligence leaks, nor were they one-sided, as South Korean citizens were also caught engaging in similar activities in China.

The economic interaction between the ROK and the PRC during the reviewed period represented several overlapping trends. On the one hand, Beijing continues to act against companies involved in deploying US missile defense in South Korea. It restrains the penetration of South Korean cultural content into the country (mainly as part...