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This postscript is a reflection on the recent Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) incident that arose between China and South Korea, which are linked in a transnational soft power field. This newly created predicament would have adverse consequences for Chinese soft power in South Korea, and in East Asia in general. The pathways leading to Chinese soft power dilemmas are seemingly increasing in the face of a continuously rising China.
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The Facebook user is one of my informants (CM37, Beijing, a South Korean media practitioner in Beijing) and he agreed to give me a consent of his Facebook message that can be used in this book.
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Although the Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China did not publish an official statement on this matter, Chinese tourists through China’s travel agencies were not recruited or visit South Korea less. According to a Chinese national who works for Incheon airport, group tourists from China were hardly seen at the airport in this post-THAAD era, but Chinese individual tourists are consistently coming to South Korea (CH1, Interview, October 26, 2017, Incheon). This is in line with many newspaper reports and tourism statistics by Korea Tourism Organization (see Korea Herald 2017).
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Please see Appendix C (Table C.1) for a detailed list of programs and celebrities were influenced by the recurring incident.
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Korea Herald. 2017. Chinese Visitors Number Drops for 6th Straight Month Amid THAAD Row. September 22. Accessed October 22, 2017. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170922000626&ACE_SEARCH=1.
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Lee, C.S. (2018). Postscript: Envisioning the Future of China’s Soft Power. In: Soft Power Made in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93115-9_9
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