아세안 경제공동체 탄생에 대한 기대와 현실

Abstract

We review the recent development of ASEAN Economic Communityand try to evaluate it. At first, we check the historical background ofASEAN economic community and later examine what ASEAN did tobuild its economic community for the past decade. For this purpose, weinvestigate score card of ASEAN integration and several economicindicators including intra-trade volumes. In addition, we reviews theseveral survey result done by various economic agents across the country. From this comprehensive analysis, we support the view that the buildingprocedure of ASEAN economic community by 2015 is behind theschedule and that this view is also quite widely acknowledged by manyeconomic agents. To find the reasons for this problem, we investigate thedetailed integration process of several sectors. We think that it may becaused by fundamental problems of ASEAN member countries such aswide disparity of economic size or personal income of each membercountry. At the same time, idealistic and unrealistic and less concrete planalso can be another reason for it. Despite all these problems, we cannot deny that ASEAN builds a very remarkable achievement for advancing itseconomic integration and cooperation for the past decade and that itshould be evaluated very positively.