The Korea Local Administration Review

Glocalization empowers local governments, linking them to global resources and facilitating initiatives of local community development, while providing opportunities for the local communities to direct positive social change in the areas that most directly affect them. Recently, local governments are propelling local diplomacy by various international exchange and cooperation. By reviewing multi-track diplomacy reflecting the context of new diplomacy in levels of diplomatic activity, domain and scope of the subject matter or content, and numbers and types of actors, this paper aims to explore practical and theoretical implications for the activation of Korean local diplomacy. This paper investigated the actual conditions of Jeju's local diplomacy general, exchanges and cooperation between the South and the North, Island of the world peace, and evaluated them with three criterions―variety of agendas, plurality of actor and a practical structure of local diplomacy―is drawn through theoretical discussion about multi-track diplomacy. According to these analysis result, Jeju's local diplomacy seems still that is not overcoming the beginner's course. To strength local diplomacy capacity, various actors of unofficial sectors should take part in local diplomacy activities and must practice close information interchange and cooperation through construction of coordination mechanism between official and unofficial actors. Multi-track diplomacy is strategic and methodological framework of local diplomacy, and suggested implications for the activation of Korean local diplomacy. Also it means an alternative plan that can overcome diplomacy capability of weak public sector that can not but suffer fatally in an early stage of local diplomacy.