평창올림픽과 북한의 스포츠 외교

Abstract

Due to appearance of soft power, international order shows sophisticated change based on much refined power formed through authority, value, culture and system rather than pursuit of hard power based on economic strength and military power; and, the representative field is sports field. Today, sports diplomacy appears as an important part of soft power in international society and is considered as part of public diplomacy. Sports diplomacy plays an important role in trust formation between countries and is recognized as a core element of national competitiveness creating cultural value. Sports diplomacy raises national prestige and is utilized in various fields such as extension of national power, improvement of national image, and the establishment of diplomatic relations. North Korea is no exception to this case and the representative example is PyeongChang Olympic. This thesis aims to study sports diplomacy of the Kim Jong-un regime, to make a comparative analysis on North Korea's policy of relationship improvement with South Korea and America, and to study North Korea's image being changed through combination of Korean Wave with sports diplomacy. It is clear that sports diplomacy of North Korea gave a great help to lessening of tension in the Korean Peninsula and relationship improvement between South Korea and North Korea as well as between North Korea and America, and the thesis intends to forecast future relationship between South Korea and North Korea.