Korea Foundation`s Public Diplomacy Week: What is Public Diplomacy?
(WorldNews South Korea)

Korea Foundation`s Public Diplomacy Week: What is Public Diplomacy? Recently the concept of `public diplomacy` has come up more frequently in media, politics and academia. However, it is still unclear exactly how we define this concept. For example, why do we call this particular type of diplomacy `public`? What makes public diplomacy different from more traditional `official diplomacy`? Is there a reason that official diplomats are not in charge of this new kind of diplomacy? These questions do have answers, but it is difficult to determine how well they have been explained to the general public as well as to (and even by) experts in international politics. Not long ago, before `public...