Korea Passing
Korea Passing (Korean: 코리아 패싱) is a neologism coined in 2017 by Yoo Seung-min, the then Bareun Party presidential candidate, to describe the phenomenon of South Korea being by-passed or "given the cold shoulder" by the international community in their discussions on North Korea. == Origin and meaning == The notion of a country being "passed" in global diplomatic negotiations that affect it originally derives from a 1998 incident when Bill Clinton visited China without visiting Japan, which the Japanese media called a "Japan passing", signifying Japan's isolation in its diplomatic relations with global society.