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Recently, South Korea has been in a state of anxiety because the domestic economic situation is not optimistic. According to Yonhap News Agency 28**, due to the impact of factors such as the downturn in the international IT market, the import share of South Korean goods in China's overall import market fell to less than 7% last year. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, the proportion of South Korean goods in China's imports has been maintained at about 10%, becoming China's largest commodity importer for seven consecutive years. Today, however, the situation has changed significantly. Korean media believe that this is mainly due to the continuous improvement of the competitiveness of China's local products, which has caused South Korea to lose its former advantages in many fields such as smart phones, displays, automobiles, and petrochemicals. It is worth noting that China forms new markets every year, accounting for about half of the size of South Korea's economy, but South Korea is struggling to find an alternative to the Chinese market. As time goes on, the pressure on South Korea's economy will only grow. To this end, South Korean politicians have begun to take active actions in the hope of communicating and engaging in dialogue with China in order to ease relations between the two sides and find ways to solve problems. However, South Korea** has found that China's request to South Korea seems to be rather lukewarm. On the one hand, after South Korea's new foreign minister, Cho Doi-yeol, took office, he spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japan's foreign minister, Australia's foreign minister, and Vietnam's foreign minister, but has not yet officially spoken with China's foreign minister. South Korean media said that China and South Korea are still coordinating. On the other hand, the South Korean media also noted that China has recently carried out frequent diplomatic activities, but has not paid much attention to South Korea. For example, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong's visit to Pyongyang for consultations with Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myung-ho of the DPRK sent a clear signal of friendship between China and the DPRK. In addition, China also sent its foreign relations minister to the United States for talks with high-level American officials, which was seen by the South Korean media as a manifestation of China's intention to "control risks". As far as South Korea is concerned, there have been few high-level bilateral talks between China and South Korea, except for the meeting of the foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea in Busan last November. Therefore, the Korean media lamented China's snub attitude towards South Korea. In fact, South Korea knows exactly what the reasons behind this attitude are. Since last year, friction between China and South Korea has escalated, especially the diplomatic strategy of the trilateral alliance pursued by Yoon Suk-yeol** of the United States, Japan and South Korea, and Yoon Suk-yeol's remarks on the Taiwan issue have repeatedly crossed the line, not only adopting the wrong name for Taiwan, but also calling the Taiwan issue a global issue. In addition, on the South China Sea issue, South Korea has called for a rules-based order that should be followed and sneered at China. In terms of the investigation into China, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Trade of South Korea also announced an investigation into Chinese batteries, and studied the patent infringement investigation application for "smartphone secondary batteries", questioning Chinese batteries. These facts show that South Korea has a clear attitude toward China. South Korea has repeatedly ignored China's feelings and provoked trouble, but once its own economy is in trouble, it immediately pins its hopes on China, this mentality is not advisable, and China does not like to deal with such a country. If South Korea is serious about cooperating with China, it should reflect on its own behavior and think deeply about the deviations in its China course. Before Yoon Suk-yeol took office, was China-South Korea relations as bad as they are now? As a neighboring country, China-South Korea relations have always been a geopolitical reality that South Korea must face. If relations with China are handled with the mentality of betting that the United States will win and China will lose, then the relations between China and South Korea will become worse and worse.
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