Korea & the World (11)
New Europe and European Union
2011. 5. 31.
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This Week in Brief
• 한중일 관광 골든루트 10선 개발키로
– 관광장관회의, 평창 공동성명 (5.29)
– 위기상황 공조체제: 자연재해, 테러, 질병 등
– 종래의 경계/경쟁 대상에서 협력 대상
• 스페인 바르셀로나, UEFA 챔피언스리그
우승
– 유럽 프로축구 연맹 ‘꿈의 무대’
– 역사의 원한풀이를 축구 열광으로 승화
How Far is Europe?
• Geographic boundaries
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Norway, Iceland
Russia Ural mountains, Kazakhstan
Portugal, Ireland
Turkey, Cyprus
• Population 7.3억
, area ~1000만 평방km
• Languages 31 , nations 52
• Political boundaries (Vienna line)
– West Europe: UK, FRA, GER, ITA etc. 26
- Eastern Europe: RUS plus ex-Soviet block 26
EU Expansion Map
History of Europe
• Home of Western Civilization
– Greece, Rome, Byzantine, Ottoman, Habsburg
– Christian culture
– Catholic, Orthodox(정교회), Protestant(개신교, 1517)
• Columbus new world (1492) : colonization
• Birth place of democracy
– French Revolution(1789)
– From feudal kingdom to republic
• Birth place of communism
– Bolshevik Revolution (1918, St. Petersburg )
– 12 independent republics after Soviet collapse (1989)
– 7 independent republics after Yugoslavia collapse(1990)
Colonial Imperialism : New World
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NET:
USA, INA/PAK, AUL/NZL, KEN, SAF
Central/South America
BRA, ANG
ALG, MOR, SEN
MOZ, IND
Continent of Wars
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100 Year War
: 1337 – 1453 (FRA, Joan d’Ark)
30 Year War
: 1618 – 1648 (GER, Cat/Pro)
Napoleon War
: 1803 - 1815
WW I
: 1914 - 1918
Communism
: 1918 - 1989
WW II
: 1939 - 1945
Balkan War
: 1991 - 2001
Chernobyl accident : 1986
Road to No Wars
• Military/security pacts
– NATO :founded 1949, 26 members (US lead)
– Warsaw Pact : 1955 – 1991, 7 member (USSR lead)
• Political pact
– OSCE (Org. for Security and Co-operation in
Europe), founded 1973, 56 members
• Economic alliance
– European Union (EU)
Collapse of Communism
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1989
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1991
2004
Chernobyl nuclear accident, Ukraine
Seoul Olympic
Collapse of Berlin Wall
E/W German reunification
Soviet collapse, 12 republics
7 ex-communist countries join EU
»LIT, LAT, EST, CZR, HUN, SLO, SLA, POL
Expansion of EU
• Founded coal/steel union with 6 MS (1957 Rome)
• Expanded to 27 united states of Europe
– 1995: 15 MS (western Europe)
– 2004: 25 MS (10 eastern Europe; CZR, HUN, SLO)
– 2007: 27 MS (ROM, BUL)
• Single currency Euro (2002)
• No borders, Schengen Treaty (2007)
• Remaining 20, EU admission process
– Timing of TUR admission
Prospect of New Silk Road
• Linking Europe and Asia (Eurasia)
– Hyecho, 8 C. Shilla monk, first Korean to Europe
- Marco Polo, 13 C. first European to Asia
• TSR/TCR/TKR rail transports
• Lessons learned from Europe
– History of sufferings, wisdom to negotiate
– Highest culture, prosperity
– Balance from US domination
Small but Strong (强小國)
• Superpowers: FRA(18C), UK(19C), GER(20C)
• Small but strongs
– Benelux-3: BEL, NET, LUX
– Scandinavia-4: SWE, NOR, DEN, FIN
– Alps-2: SWI, AUS
• Austria/Korea relations
– WW I/II defeated with Nazi Germany
– Land of music, culture, ski
– First first lady Francesca Rhee (from Vienna)
한.유럽 협력 약사
• 한국 최초의 서양인: 화란인 Hendrick Hamel
– 1653, 13년 체한 후 “하멜 표류기” 발행
• 유럽 최초의 한국인: 16c. 안토니오 코레아?
– Rubens 명화, “베니스의 개성 상인”
• 구한말 유럽과 수교국: 불/영/러/독
• Hague 밀사 사건 : 1907 2차 만국평화회의
– 이준 열사 고종의 특사로 파견, 분사
• 대한민국 초대 영부인 Francesca 여사
Rubens “A Man in Korean Costume”(1617)
Francesca Story
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Francesca Donner, born in Vienna
Meets Syngman Rhee, Geneve
Married to Dr. Rhee, New York
First first lady
Returned to Vienna after Dr. Rhee’s
death
Returned back to Seoul, Ewha-jang
Died at Ewha-jang
Francesca at Syngman Rhee’s BD