Abstract
Clarifying how South Korean aid had been changed during the procedures to join Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and the background why South Korea made a decision to become a DAC member are the main purposes of this study. Prior researches have identified a few reasons that clarifying emerging donor’s DAC entering mainly focused on external factors. This study describes South Korea’s decision to join DAC had been decided through domestic debates, unlike previous studies. The policy documents and qualitative interviews used to analyze the changes of aid and background in South Korea, especially during the 2000s. In 2005, the South Korean government announced a plan for aid policy reforms by 2010. The establishment of the Committee for International Development Cooperation for comprehensive aid policy‐making expansion of aid volume, and the increase in grant ratio were the major changes in this process. The members involved in Official Development Assistance policy reforms were not only officials but professionals who pursued a career in civil society as well. The Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004 worked as one of the catastrophic events that pushed Korea to shift to real policy reform, but more than that, there was a social consensus on South Korea’s obligation to become an international donor. Keywords: ODA, Korea, DAC, Emerging donor DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/98-30 Publication date: June 30th 2020
Highlights
In 2010, Korea joined the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD DAC), which is a group of donor countries
Since the mid-2000s, South Korea has set up a system as a member of an international donor country
The number of actors involved in the aid policy has increased and experts from the nongovernmental sector have participated in the aid decision-making process
Summary
In 2010, Korea joined the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD DAC), which is a group of donor countries. The volume of China’s SSC has been remarkable enough to impress the other DAC donor countries and recipient countries (Naim, 2007) This phenomenon was new to the DAC member countries, who had provided overwhelming quantitative aid to recipient countries until the mid-2000s. As South Korea is not an EU member, joining the DAC membership began with domestic debates rather than external pressure. In this regard, this study uses the policy documents of the Korean government to focus on the changes in the country’s aid policy and the discussions in Korea regarding these alterations, especially during the 2000s
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