Author

Younkyoo Kim is an associate professor of international relations at the Division of International Studies, Hanyang University.

Abstract

Energy security remains a contested term but more and more analysts, especially those studying global energy governance, have come to define it in response to broad and often interlinked domestic and foreign energy governance or challenges to states. In examining this question of the globe’s energy future path we may observe that the global governance perspective furnishes us with a useful barometer of evolving trends in global energy institutions, norms and interests and offers us some clues to future energy trajectory. This paper seeks to make a contribution to the understanding of the nature and direction of Korea’s energy diplomacy by 2020. This paper offers a unique perspective on Korean energy policy in the emerging global energy architecture and its dilemmas in dealing with new institutions, norms, and advances in technology.

The full text in Korean is available here