Optical Illusion: Did Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Really Increase More in the Progressive Government than in the Conservative Government?
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The general image of South Korea's progressive government is positive for inter-Korean economic cooperation and the conservative government is negative. This study evaluates how well this image fits with reality. The results are summarized as follows. First, the conservative government was just as active in expanding inter-Korean eco-nomic cooperation as the progressive government. However, the political and security situation on the Korean Peninsula turned relatively negative to the conservative gov-ernment. Second, not only the legalization of inter-Korean economic cooperation but the first economic cooperation agreement, the first economic talks, and the first assis-tance were made by the conservative government. Third, the year 2015 under the Park Geun-hye administration marked the highest level of inter-Korean trade. Based on the presidential term, the Lee Myung-bak administration recorded the biggest volume of inter-Korean trade. Fourth, the distortion of statistics greatly contributed to the percep-tion that inter-Korean economic cooperation had grown in the progressive government. These findings imply that the general image differs from the actual facts. Inter-Korean economic cooperation in the conservative government was by no means smaller than in the progressive government. In the progressive government, humanitarian aid and the Kaesong Industrial Complex produced the effect of making the inter-Korean economic cooperation appear larger than it was, whereas the conservative government's suspen-sion of inter-Korean trade and the closure of the Kaesong Industrial Complex created an illusion that the inter-Korean economic cooperation seemed smaller than it really was.
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The general image of South Korea's progressive government is positive for inter-Korean economic cooperation and the conservative government is negative. This study evaluates how well this image fits with reality. The results are summarized as follows. First, the conservative government was just as active in expanding inter-Korean eco-nomic cooperation as the progressive government. However, the political and security situation on the Korean Peninsula turned relatively negative to the conservative gov-ernment. Second, not only the legalization of inter-Korean economic cooperation but the first economic cooperation agreement, the first economic talks, and the first assis-tance were made by the conservative government. Third, the year 2015 under the Park Geun-hye administration marked the highest level of inter-Korean trade. Based on the presidential term, the Lee Myung-bak administration recorded the biggest volume of inter-Korean trade. Fourth, the distortion of statistics greatly contributed to the percep-tion that inter-Korean economic cooperation had grown in the progressive government. These findings imply that the general image differs from the actual facts. Inter-Korean economic cooperation in the conservative government was by no means smaller than in the progressive government. In the progressive government, humanitarian aid and the Kaesong Industrial Complex produced the effect of making the inter-Korean economic cooperation appear larger than it was, whereas the conservative government's suspen-sion of inter-Korean trade and the closure of the Kaesong Industrial Complex created an illusion that the inter-Korean economic cooperation seemed smaller than it really was.
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