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The foreign relations in the current international society is putting the authentic mutual dependence and understanding between the nations above others unlike the cold war system, so such circumstances require the medium & long term approach that could reinforce Soft Power in various fields. Such an approach is an advisable means in that it can actualize the international realism aiming for national interest with more appropriateness and also actualize the international idealism more reinforcing the approach to world peace and international issues at the same time. Especially the diplomatic strategy toward Africa employed by the countries in the West is changing into the strategy putting emphasis on Soft Power by linking the practicality of the so-called resource diplomacy and market expansion to sustainable economic development.