The Maritime Tiger: South Korea`s Interests and

The Maritime Tiger:
Exploring South Korea’s
Interests and Role in the
Arctic
Mia Bennett
Scott Polar Research Institute
University of Cambridge
1913
Heavy-Chemical Industrialization
Industrialization as a
“national obligation”
2013
Why the Arctic?
Shipping
310%
top shipbuilders
99.8%
of of
exports
trade
Trade-oriented industrialization
“superdependence”
95.9
Korea
49.1
China
24.8
Japan
Ratio of trade to GDP
Hydrocarbons
Science
Towards a new
Arctic region?
Role
“Global Korea”
Legitimacy?
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