Sunshine Policy

The Reconciliation and Cooperation Policy Towards the North (Korean대북화해협력정책; Hanja對北和解協力政策), colloquially referred to as Sunshine Policy (햇볕정책; 햇볕政策) is one of the approaches for South Korea's foreign policy towards North Korea, lasting from 1998 to 2008 and again from 2017 to 2020.