Monday 1 November 2010

CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA

Korea Times

HOW TO MEND TIES BETWEEN SOUTH KOREA AND CHINA?

Sunny Lee

The Korea Times, November 1, 2010

The view that China-South Korean relations have deteriorated since the Cheonan incident is flawed. Rather, the Cheonan incident was a trigger that pushed to the surface a set of accumulated issues between the two nations, said Kim Dong-jin, who teaches at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.

Among South Korea’s top decision-makers, Kim, the former CEO of South Korean conglomerate POSCO’s China operations, is a well-recognized China hand. When South Korean Ambassador to China Yu Woo-ik was tapped for the position, Kim was among a handful of experts Yu consulted.

With over two decades of living in China, “Now, I can think like a Chinese person,” Kim said in an interview in Wangjing, the “Korea Town” in the Chinese capital.

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