KIM Hyo-sook (Assistant Professor, Kansai Gaidai University)

A special lecture is held at 29, June, 2015 at Koshinkan-building, Ritsumeikan University. The lecturer is KIM Jup-sook, an assistant professor at Kansai Gaidai University.  5 students joined in the seminar.

This seminar discusses on behavioral change of Korea in Official Development Assistance. Korea had increased the share and amount of the ODA toward Africa since 2014. This seminar argues the factors behind the increase. KIM Hyo-sook points out the two factors. First,  aid norm in international aid community affect to Korea. She argue that, this norm let Korea concentrate its aid on Africa to a greater extent. Secondly, other aiding countries also affect to Korea. Especially, China and Japan increase their activities at the same period. This also led Korea to the increase of the aid to Africa. She conclude that the rise of Africa in South Korea’s ODA since the mid-2000s resulted from the policy maker’s responses to approaches by several stakeholders inside and outside South Korea.