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Young and Dynamic?—The Curious Case of Korea's National Level Post‐2015 Process
Author(s) -
Kim Soyeun,
Kang Hanee
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3115
Subject(s) - divergence (linguistics) , consistency (knowledge bases) , architecture , process (computing) , politics , political science , subject (documents) , political economy , economic system , economic geography , economy , sociology , economics , geography , law , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , library science , operating system
This paper explores Korea's national‐level post‐2015 process via contextualising the political economy of Seoul's aid architecture. We examine the global–local discrepancy manifested in its uneven domestic processes where the global development ideas are localised and a uniquely Korean development experience is globalised. In doing so, the paper highlights the vertically and horizontally fragmented system and the lack of capacity, coordination and consistency at the heart of an uneven post‐2015 process. An in‐depth analysis of Korea's ODA architecture and Saemaul ODA demonstrates how global debates become subject to arbitrary localisation and further divergence to suit vested interests of various actors within Seoul's ODA. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.