Thursday, February 26, 2004
SEGYEHWA? Globalization (segyehwa; ¼¼°èÈ á¦Í£ûù) has been an oft-repeated slogan in South Korea ever since the Kim Young Sam administration. How successful has Korea been in actually implementing its goals? Well, if the recent A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index is any indication, not all that well. The ROK finishes 32 out of 62 countries surveyed. More interestingly, the ROK cracks the top ten in only one of 14 variables used in the index (second in internet users). Perhaps that's why there is so much more talk of the ROK as the "hub of Northeast Asia" these days.
Equally interesting to me was the fact that only two Asian nations crack the top twenty of the overall index: Singapore at an impressive #2 and Malaysia, squeaking in at 20th. Malaysia? More globalized than Japan, the ROK, and Taiwan? I would not have guessed this.
Equally interesting to me was the fact that only two Asian nations crack the top twenty of the overall index: Singapore at an impressive #2 and Malaysia, squeaking in at 20th. Malaysia? More globalized than Japan, the ROK, and Taiwan? I would not have guessed this.
