• Date: May 27th, Wednesday, 2020 13:00-18:00
• Location: Samick Hall, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)
• Hosted by: SNUAC, SNU Center for Social Sciences Research Team for Emerging Markets
• Organized by: Presidential Committee on New Southern Policy

Program

Opening

Welcome speech: SooJin Park (Director, SNUAC) (1:00-1:10)

Presentation of current situations: Taek Gil Lee (Manager of Exchanges, Presidential Committee on New Southern Policy)
“Human Exchanges between Korea and New Southern Countries in Relation to COVID-19” (1:10-1:25)

Session 1: New Southern Policy and Cooperation in Public Health (1:30-3:00)

Moderator: Je Seong Jeon (Director, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Jeonbuk National University)

Presentation 1: “Progress of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia and Tasks for ODA in New Southern countries in Public Health”
Heesuk Kim (Research Fellow, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Jeonbuk National University)

Presentation 2: “Response to Public Health Crisis and Task of Cooperation for Universal Guarantee for Health”
Yong Hun Beak (Research Fellow, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University)

Discussion: Youngtae Cho (Prof., Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University), Bo Kyeong Seo (Prof., Department of Anthropology, Yonsei University)

Session 2: New Southern Policy and Human Exchanges (3:00-4:30)

Moderator: Kyunghee Choi (Research Fellow, SNUAC)

Presentation 1: “Korea-ASEAN Immigration Cooperation in the Time of New Southern Policy”
Younghee Cho (Researcher, Migration Research and Training Centre/Visiting Scholar, SNUAC)

Presentation 2: “Lives of Marriage Immigrants from ASEAN and the New Southern Policy”
Suhyun Youk (Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, Seoul National University)

Discussion: Jin-Pyo Yoon (Prof., Sungshin Women’s University), Jongcheol Lee (Ministry of Justice)

Session 3: New Southern Policy and Education Cooperation (4:30-6:00)

Moderator: Jihyuk Lee (Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, Seoul National University)

Presentation 1: “Inclusive Development and Strengthening of Human Capacities in ASEAN: Trends and Tasks”
Sunggyu Kim (Research Fellow, SNUAC)

Presentation 2: “Opportunities and Challenges of Korea-ASEAN Higher Education Cooperation: For a reconfiguration in policy and epistemology”
Moon Suk Hong (Affiliated Prof., Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University)

Discussion: Eunhui Eom (Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, Seoul National University), Bong-Gun Chung  (Affiliated Prof., Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University)

The New Southern Policy is a foreign policy that was announced at the end of 2017 in order to respond to changes in the global political economy, with the purpose of creating Korea-ASEAN relationship centered on ‘community of peace and prosperity by putting people first’. With the 3rd Korea-ASEAN Summit and the 1st Korea-Mekong Summit last year as opportunities, New Southern Policy is being evaluated as having taken a step forward.

Despite the current situation of the global COVID-19 pandemic in which the heightened Korea-ASEAN relationship is unfolding differently than expected, Korea-ASEAN is recovering cooperation and exchanges through cooperation in disease control and public health after the ASEAN+3 Special Summit on April 14th as the turning point. While many things are amidst changes due to COVID-19, the core value of New Southern Policy, the value of ‘putting people first’, bears significant meaning.

In this expert policy meeting commemorating the third year of launching New Southern Policy, public health, migration, and education were discussed in order to realize New Southern Policy that puts people first in the time of and after COVID-19. The public health sector has rapidly risen as an important issue due to COVID-19. In this meeting, joint response to COVID-19 and Korea-ASEAN cooperation in the public health area were discussed. While human exchanges between Korea and ASEAN have been discussed only in terms of expanding the quantity, it was emphasized in this meeting that human exchanges must be newly established, beyond simple exchanges but in the aspect of inclusive migration policy. Most of all, experts discussed Korea’s directions of cooperation in education and practical programs for the human resource development of ASEAN citizens, which ASEAN focuses on the most. Through this discussion, the gathered experts sought to contribute to advance into Korea-ASEAN relationship that puts people first, beyond the current mercantile relationship.