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Ahead of the phasing out of the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015, this paper examines developments in the area of international development cooperation as well as South Korea's development cooperation policy. The author argues that there are three main factors shifting development cooperation, namely 1) changes in global power, as demonstrated by the rise of China and the decline of the US; 2) the increasingly complicated nature of the global governance of development cooperation; and 3) national strategies of development cooperation policy. He then outlines his argument which explains why middle powers like South Korea should increase their role in development cooperation.