South Korea is a hard analytical target – the revival of an often-uneasy alliance may only be temporary.

Seoul’s change in political leadership is promising for the West. Australia must do more to take advantage of the opportunity.

Be guarded about assessments of South Korea’s future foreign policy based on the presidential election period.

It’s time to stop. Please stop writing papers on South Korea as a middle power. It’s time to abandon the term.

Moon Jae-in’s visit to Australia brought out a troubling fact – amid the China threat, the ability to objectively analyse has declined.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Australia this week comes at a critical point in the relationship between the countries.

We’re firmly entrenched in an era of hybrid diplomacy, floating between in-person and video conference diplomacy.

Intelligence analysis is often undertaken in teams for a reason. It requires subject and target knowledge, as well as analytical competency.

Different understandings of the world where a middle power sits has led South Korea down a different path to Australia.

Despite relief at greater predictability, there remains uncertainty for South Korea about President-elect Joe Biden’s North Korea policy.

On 16 December, it was announced that Catherine Raper would be the next Australian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea.

A politician turned plenipotentiary can make a powerful statement. Yet it can also undermine public service neutrality.

An international commission could potentially transform an outdated and failed approach to the Korean peninsula.

The Australian foreign policy community continues to narrowly view the Korean Peninsula in the context of North Korea.

South Korea has transformed drastically over the last 20 years, and strategic change on the peninsula will be via Seoul.

This will not be the last year the world gathers in a virtual meeting – just think beyond Zoom as the platform.

Tacking the problems created by Covid-19 appear to be beyond this particular example of middle-power activism.

Centralised decision-making and tighter budgets are here to stay, with pointless political talkfest out of the way.

Contemporary understanding of middle-power diplomacy is tied to a bygone era.

Recent scandals have raised questions about the culture within the country’s diplomatic corps. There are ways to fix it.