한국의 대(對)이란 외교정책 담론

Korea's Foreign Policy Discourses on Iran: Focusing on the Park Geun-Hye and Moon Jae-In Governments

This study adopted poststructuralism based on constitutive epistemology. From a poststructuralist perspective, language is not a neutral medium of communication. Rather, language produces meaning. Poststructuralists hold that language plays an important role in understanding global politics. This study explored Korea's foreign policy discourses on Iran based on poststructuralist epistemology. Particularly, the study divided the foreign policy discourses of the Park Geun-Hye and Moon Jae-In governments into three broad categories: politics, economy and culture. In addition, the study analyzed Korea's foreign policy discourses in the context of diplomatic conflicts with Iran by dealing with the Iranian detention of a Korean-flagged tanker. The results of this study are as follows. First, the Park Geun-Hye and Moon Jae-In governments sought to maintain friendly relations with Iran by using various diplomatic discourses. Second, the Moon Jae-In government showed diplomatic efforts to resolve conflicts between both countries such as Iran's Korean-flagged oil tanker seizure.