South Korea has received praise from key diplomatic partners this year for improving relations with Japan and enhancing trilateral security cooperation with Japan and the U.S. 

However, the South Korean government faced significant challenges and setbacks as well. These included diplomatic blunders, a wiretapping controversy and a botched bid to host a World Expo.

Domestically, the political landscape in South Korea was also marked by increased political polarization and conflicts within both of the two main political parties.

Korea Propresents the second half of a retrospective on 10 moments that exposed South Korea’s deep-seated challenges and cast a shadow