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How far do globalization and external relations impact on South Korean politics

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The downsides of the globalization affected South Korea just like it affected every other developed country. The need for importing working force became more evident once the South Korean society experienced the flaws characteristic for economically developed societies: population aging and low birth rates. The country needs more and more infusions of working forces from abroad in spite of its initially high degree of ethnic homogeneity. Globalization brought un unprecedented flow of workers all around the world. South Koreas politics towards immigration have to change in order to adapt to the countrys new needs in terms of working force. Although the proportion of foreigners in Korea represents a little over 1 per cent of the total population of 48 million as of the end of 2005, chances are, , that the country will become a multiracial and multiethnic society in the near future(Kim 2009, 71)

The economic development of South Korea, in the context of globalization, also led to the countrys vulnerability. Once the economic partners, especially the countries that were the major import partners, experienced economic recession, South Korea, like the rest of the world, was subject to a recession. Many of the Asian countries that were a