기억의 국제정치와 국내정치적 요인 연구

Abstract

Sometimes countries value ideological factors and accept conflicts with other countries even at the expense of security interests or economic losses. A case in point is the Korea-Japan conflict. The period when such conflicts between Korea and Japan intensified was during the Moon Jae-in government. The specificity and sensitivity of Korea-Japan relations were recognized by both citizens of the two countries, and even though it was necessary to maintain a cooperative relationship in consideration of the mutual dependence between the two countries, there was a tendency to officially express the Korea-Japan conflict during the Moon Jae-in government. If so, was there any domestic political benefit that could be gained from this? For this study, we tried to apply the politics of memory, and as examples, we tried to investigate the problem of victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, victims of forced labor, and trade disputes caused by Japan's economic sanctions. As for the analysis data, data such as opinion polls, time series data on the president's approval rating and the Korea-Japan conflict index, political speeches, diplomatic documents, and media articles were mainly used. As an analysis method, it was intended to examine how the Korean government's political and diplomatic actions affect the president's approval rating in Korea-Japan issues at a time when the Korea-Japan conflict was high. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that the timing of the government's political and diplomatic actions on Japan-related issues tended to overlap with the timing of the rise in the Korea-Japan conflict index.