THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA'S GASTRODIPLOMACY IMPLEMENTATION TOWARDS REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA IN PROMOTING KOREAN TRADITIONAL FOOD (2015-2016)

Abstract

The practice of diplomacy with the use of food as the tool of negotiation is become the new term in the diplomacy world. Republic of Korea (ROK) as one of middle power countries wants to increase the country.s reputation with the promotion of its traditional food to some countries in the world. Republic of Indonesia (RI) becomes the targeted country for the promotion of Korean food. With the use of food, ROK wants to implement its gastrodiplomacy towards RI in promoting its traditional food. In order to promote its traditional food, ROK government made an institution which stands under the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs of ROK named Korean Food Foundation as the official government institution to promote Korean food to global. This thesis thus describes the implementation that used by ROK within the year of 2015 and 2016 in order to find out how ROK implement its gastrodiplomacy towards RI with the promotion of its traditional food as the tool of diplomacy. The qualitative research method is used with books, journals, articles, as the secondary sources, and publications from officials of ROK government as well as the KFF to become the primary sources. This thesis will provide the detailed actions of gastrodiplomacy implementation by the ROK government through KFF.