World needs global Korea
By Song Kyung-jinForeign policy becomes domestic policy only when it is presented with the right background, direction and information. Before and after the G7 Leaders' Summit on June 11-13 in Cornwall, the U.K., the whole of Korea was mired in excitement and ire simultaneously out of confusion and misleading information from the government and supposed experts.When this year's G7 host, the United Kingdom, announced the list of invited guests to the Cornwall G7 summit in January ― Korea, Australia, India and South Africa ― the Korean government immediately published it and offered an interpretation that the G7's invitation two years in a row was a G7 recognition of Korea's enhanced stature in the world, coming close to that of the world's richest countries which make up the G7. The same rhetoric was reinforced by the President in Cabinet meetings as the G7 summit was approaching. There is no doubt that it is a good thing to be invited to an important multilateral forum like the G7 where global issues are discussed. But no invitation is extended at random without an agenda or a purpos
