EU-South Korea Cooperation on Cybersecurity, Data Protection and Emerging Technologies

Abstract

The European Union (EU) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) are considered normatively like-minded in the cyber and digital sphere. They face shared threats, common concerns and common interests relating to cybersecurity, data protection and emerging technologies and work bilaterally and multilaterally to achieve a resilient, stable and secure global cyber ecosystem. This chapter interrogates how cooperation and collaboration have evolved between the EU and South Korea to address shared threats. It is argued that whilst there is a high degree of convergence across the issue areas explored, divergence still exists and cooperation can be significantly improved beyond dialogue, information sharing and trust-building.