In 2017, the Republic of Korea unveiled the New Southern Policy (NSP), a new foreign policy paradigm aiming at growing and prospering together with ASEAN member states and India. Highlighting the three Korea-ASEAN communities of the envisioned shared future – a community for the ‘people’ with ‘shared prosperity’ and of ‘peace’ – the New Southern Policy seeks to elevate Korea’s partnership with ASEAN member states and India to the same level that Korea maintains with the four major powers surrounding it (the United States, China, Japan and Russia). ..