After the establishment of diplomatic relations, Russia and South Korea have passed a difficult way of developing mutual understanding and a certain degree of mutual trust and practical actions. Their relationships have evolved from great optimism to pragmatic and balanced development and the current state characterized in the anniversary year by the slogan “Be friends. Trust. Act”. The republic of Korea has achieved almost all the goals set during the normalization of relations and received huge profits from the cooperation with Russia. Conversely, Russia has not achieved most of the goals and objectives set 30 years ago.

Kim En Un, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies RAS, 32, Nahimovski av., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation; School of International Regional Studies, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, 17/1, Malaya Ordynka st., Moscow, 119017, Russian Federation, e-mail: kimkorea@list.ru

Kim En Un. The Evolution of Relations between Russia and the Republic of Korea: to Mark the 30th Anniver-sary of Mutual Recognition. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2020, vol. 34, pp. 18-25. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2020.34.18 (in Russian)

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