29. PERBANDINGAN KEBIJAKAN KOREA SELATAN ERA LEE MYUNG BAK DAN PARK GEUN HYE TERHADAP JEPANG TERKAIT ISU KUIL YASUKUNI SEBAGAI SIMBOL KEJAHATAN PERANG

Abstract

South Korea and Japan are often involve in dynamics relationship which’s effected by the
past issue that bind both of them. That issue is about the existence of Yasukuni Shrine, the
shrine became controversy because South Korea believe that the shrine represent Japan’s
brutality during World War II and colonialism were happened. The existence of the
Temple stoked tensions and a critcism response from South Korea. Through this issue,
South Korea want all of the problem that involve Japan in the past such as Comfort
Women, history text books, and the ownership of Dokdo / Takeshima to be settled. The
purpose of this study are to compare the foreign policy of Lee Myung Bak and the Park
Geun Hye as the President of South Korea towards the issue of Yasukuni Shrine as a
symbol of war crimes. Writer uses neo realism perspective for the theory. For the method
of research writer uses descriptive analytic and qualitative data analysis. The result of the
research explain the similarity of foreign policy by President Lee Myung Bak and
President Park Geun Hye and also the difference of foreign policy towards Yasukuni
Shrine Issue as the symbolistic of war crime.