Relationship dossier
Austria
South Korea
Relationship assessment
Austria and South Korea have a strategic partnership with cooperation spanning climate policy, digitalization and science.
Austria toward South Korea
+40Austria hosted President Moon Jae-in in 2021 and joined South Korea in elevating bilateral ties to a strategic partnership. The governments also pursued cooperation in areas including climate policy, digitalization, science and technology.
South Korea toward Austria
+40South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in visited Austria in 2021, and the governments elevated bilateral ties to a strategic partnership. South Korea joined Austria in pursuing cooperation in areas including climate policy, digitalization, science and technology.
Overall relationship
+40The strategic partnership and cooperation agreements provide a substantive framework for bilateral relations, including work on climate policy, digitalization and science. High-level engagement in 2021 reinforced this cooperative structure. The extent and implementation of the agreements are unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Austria and South Korea maintain a cooperative relationship that was elevated to a strategic partnership during South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s 2021 visit to Austria. The governments have pursued cooperation in areas including climate policy, digitalization, science and technology. The known high-level engagement and agreements indicate substantive ties, though their implementation and the full scope of cooperation are unclear.
Key developments
During President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Austria, the governments elevated bilateral relations to a strategic partnership and pursued cooperation in climate policy, digitalization, science and technology.
Major uncertainties
- The implementation and scope of the cooperation agreements are unclear.
- Details of subsequent bilateral government cooperation are limited.