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The sources of this influence include economic vested interests with South Korea being the fourth largest economy in Asia. Another set of sources includes the large vested interests in US military and diplomatic circles from nearly seventy years of alliance with South Korea during and after the Cold War. South Korean leverage also includes the sympathetic legacy of proselytizing Western and particularly American religious cultural organizations in Korean religiosity and society. In Korea, American and Soviet Cold War intense, competitive interference supplanted Japanese imperialism. Christianity therefore did not readily become associated with imperial control of Korea by a single external power. Advocacy of South Korea as a development model in soft power competition for influence against pan-Arab and pan-Islamic militants in the Middle East is basically flawed.

Benedict E. DeDominicis, PhD, is an associate professor of political science in the International Studies Department at the Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Republic of Korea