This paper (in Korean), written in September 2010, was uploaded for archival purposes.

This paper, in reviewing the direction and options for ROK-China cooperation, delves into the meaning of strategic cooperative partnership and to what extent the two countries are engaging in strategic cooperation. It also seeks the issues that require bilateral strategic cooperation and in what direction the two countries should cooperate. As a result of the study, the author evaluates that while the bilateral relations of strategic cooperative partnership have advanced considerably, the challenges have also increased in security issues such as the North Korean nuclear issue as well as the sinking of ROKS Cheonan, etc. For further development of bilateral relations, the paper proposes the following policies. Above all, bilateral strategic cooperation requires deepened mutual trust between South Korea and China. Whereas the exchanges expanded, high-level meetings should be regularized and institutionalized in order to bridge the perception gap and build mutual trust. While the bilateral exchanges extended to various fields such as politics, economy, society, and culture, military exchange and cooperation lags behind. In addition, the two countries should strive for trilateral cooperation which involves either the U.S. or Japan, and cooperate to establish a security cooperation mechanism in East Asia.