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Professor Vyjanati Raghavan on Rajya Sabha TV- India-Korea Relations

           

Forget About Wooing Korea on Indian Standard Time( Vyjayanti Raghavan Centre for Korean Studies, JNU, New Delhi)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul on Monday [Credit: PTI] Narendra Modi, who has visited 17 countries in the one year that he’s been Prime Minister, made his latest stop in South Korea at the end of a three-nation Asian tour that took him to China and Mongolia. In Korea, he talked about ‘Make in India’. He talked about Asian Unity. He talked about defence cooperation. He talked about international institutions and the need to reform them. He talked about security dialogues. India and Korea signed seven agreements, described in the MEA’s usual way as ‘wide-ranging’. But the question now is: What are they worth and will India meet Korean expectations, especially on the economic side? If the past is anything to go by, the Koreans may well be in for a disappointment. After all, P V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh in their time had also invited Korea’s small and medium scale firms to come and invest in India. To date, however, there are only...