韩国粮食问题及对其外交政策的影响

Food Problems in South Korea and Its Impact on the Foreign Policy

韩国是世界上生活水平相对较高的国家,但却面临着粮价居高不下、粮食自给率不足、对外依存度偏高等影响粮食供给安全性、稳定性的问题,其原因在于韩国粮食供需链中供给、需求和交易等各环节均存在不足之处。这些问题对韩国外交政策的制定与施行产生较大影响,在某种程度上阻碍了韩国与发展大国关系的努力、制约了其推进整体对外经济合作与外交战略布局的安排,而且在某些情况下也削弱了韩国利用粮食援助作为外交政策工具推动朝鲜半岛南北关系发展的能力。

Although South Korea is a relatively high-income country, it has complex food problems such as high prices, poor self-supply ratio and over dependence on imports. These problems result from deficiencies in supply, demand, and transactions. They not only undermine the security and stability of South Korea＇s food supply, affect South Korean people＇s quality of life, but also have serious implications on South Korea＇s foreign policy. They impede South Korea＇s efforts to develop big power relations, restrain its strategic layout and foreign economic cooperation programming. In particular, as food aid is one of the important foreign policy tools to develop relations with North Korean, the problems do weaken South Korea＇s diplomatic capability.