소프트파워 자원에 대한 상호 평가와 한일관계

Abstract

This study researched ① How do Korea and Japan evaluate the other's soft power resources respectively? ② Among them, which ones are pros and cons toward the relationship between Korea and Japan? ③ How can we examine the present and future of the relationship between Korea and Japan with the evaluation of soft power resources? Joseph Samuel Nye categorized soft power resources into political value, culture and foreign policy. In the political value, Korea perceived Japan to be militarism or nationalism and Japan also perceived Korea to be nationalism or statism. In cultural aspect, Japan showed interest in tourist spot, cuisine, history of Korea and Korea showed interest in tourist spot, manufactured goods, animation and Manga, history of Japan. Generally, Japan presented more interest than Korea in cultural aspect. In foreign policy, Korea has taken much firmer stance toward clearing the past affairs, apology, compensation and recompence consistently. Japan also has held stronger stance since 2013 although it is difficult to assert because of the absence of material. Japanese answer of "going well in the relationship between both Countries" decreased from average 40% to 7% betwenn 1980's and 2000's. Korean answer of "going bad in the relationship between both Countries" was average 69% during same period, but it increased up to 90% in 2015. It is considered that the relationship of two countries has a rough time for a while because of negative forecast about the future of the two countries. This negative forecast has begun with minus evaluation of political value and foreign policy. Nevertheless, the evaluation of mutual culture is optimistic and both nations desire cultural exchange and resolution in relationship strongly. Namely, the future of the relationship between Korea and Japan is not dark.