The Struggle to Prefer

South Korea struggles to choose between US and China, S. Korea is becoming caught in big geopolitical shifts, as China tries to use its economic clout to sway loyalty away from the US and undermine a security pact that has lasted 70 years. 

Why South Korea? Why such struggle? What security pact?

A Glance in Tranquility wins...!

The 70 years from Korean War

Seoul(Capital of South Korea) has to balance that with a security alliance with the US that dates back to US decisive intervention in the 1950-53 Korean War. For more than 70 years, the US has unquestionably been the South's most important partner, but there are indications that Beijing may be trying to peel the left-of-center the current government  away from its long-standing alliance with the US.

The Trade Agreement

Some South Koreans are becoming increasingly resentful of the way in which the administration of US President Donald Trump has treated a nation that they contend has always been loyal. The US president said that pact of 2007  was "a horrible deal" and succeeded in convincing Seoul to accept revisions that benefited the US, and were ratified in a new pact in September 2018. Trump has equally railed against the amount that Seoul pays for the 28,500 US troops stationed in South Korea, indicating that he will withdraw US forces unless Seoul pays $5 billion (€4.25 billion) a year, a figure more than five times the amount that the South agreed to pay for a one-year deal covering 2019.

The Red Flag Trade Partner

These frictions on trade and defense are fractures that china will likely happily exploit for its own end. US is aware of Beijing's approaches and realizes that China would like nothing more than to bring Seoul closer to its orbit. It looks very much as if South Korea is coming under pressure to choose sides, although there is a strong aversion here to being forced into that position.

The South Asian Friend

  

The two countries of India and the Republic of Korea share deep historical, social, and cultural bonds. India and South Korea have signed numerous bilateral agreements with the aim of taking their ties to the next level. However, the economic partnership is struck at $22 billion annually, and their defence partnership appears to have receded from great all-round promise to the mere sale and purchase of weapon systems.

The Hope

South Korea is a liberal democracy and that is incompatible with China, while there is still a very large reservoir of goodwill and connections to the US. Also their new ties with India that enriches the bond on trade between India And South Korea that leaves a conversation that it stand intermediate or to stand with United States.

What hope you have on South Korea?