Why is Canada in the G7 but not South Korea or Spain? Why can't South Korea get a seat on the UNSC

为什么加拿大是七国集团成员国，而韩国和西班牙不是？为什么韩国不能获得联合国安理会的席位

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Dong-Yoon Lee

Interested in international relations for 30 years9mo

About G7, Japan objects it. It is official.

I don't know, but the G7 seems to be a big advantage. In particular, the larger the group and area he represents and has expertise in.

Perhaps Japan played a role representing Asia.

Japan seems to be very afraid that the pie will become smaller through South Korea's participation in the role. However, since South Korea has come this far even though it is not in such a consultative body, it is not important to gain more or not.

关于韩国加入七国集团，日本反对。这是官方的。

我不知道，但七国集团似乎是一大优势。特别是，他所代表的群体和领域越大，并且拥有专业知识。

也许日本在代表亚洲方面发挥了作用。

日本似乎非常害怕韩国加入G7后，蛋糕会变得更小。然而，尽管韩国不在这样一个协商机构中，但由于它已经走了这么远，因此加入不加入并不重要。

Zane Liu
South Korea HAS gotten a seat on the UN security council. Twice in fact. That’s exceedingly generous given that South Korea has only had eligibility starting on January 1992, and realistically the following year. Asia-Pacific also only gets a mere two(!!) seats on the rotating council, out of 61 nations (47 in Asia, 14 in Oceania).

And South Korea has gotten on the council. Twice.

South Korea was a member of the UN security council in 1996–1997 and in 2013–2014.

韩国有两次获得过联合国安理会的一个（非常任理事国）席位。考虑到韩国从1992年1月开始才有资格获得，而且实际上是第二年，这算是非常慷慨的。在61个国家（亚洲47个，大洋洲14个）中，亚太地区在轮值理事会中也只有两个席位。

韩国也加入过安理会两次

韩国曾于1996-1997年和2013-2014年加入联合国安理会。

Andy Dawson

South Korea has had a seat on the UNSC twice asa non-permanent member.

And it's not in the G7 because it's economy is currently about #12 in the world — although it does have a rather unique position of having representation as a permanent observer

韩国曾两次作为非常任理事国在联合国安理会占有一席之地。

韩国不是七国集团成员，它的经济目前在世界上排名第12，不过它作为常驻观察员有着相当独特的地位

Martin Alexandre

The G7 brings together the world's advanced economies to influence global trends and tackle pervasive and crosscutting issues, as well as emergent global crises. Many economic aspects where taken into account : trade, GDP, natural ressources, de ocratic system, etc.

At that moment, no asian country was selected. Italy is a member of the G7 but his GDP was a lot higher than Spain’s GDP. Spain is lower than many other countries which are not member of the G7: Brazil, Turkey, Mexco, etc. etc.

七国集团将世界发达经济体聚集在一起，影响全球趋势，解决各种问题，以及突发的全球危机。考虑了许多经济方面：贸易、国内生产总值、自然资源、民 主制度等。

当时，没有一个亚洲国家被选中。意大利是七国集团成员国，但他的GDP远高于西班牙的GDP。西班牙的GDP低于许多其他非七国集团成员国，比如巴西、土耳其、墨西哥等。

Bill Richey

Former Linguist, Comm Engineer USAF, (1958–1984)Wed
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, together with the European Union, The EU countries are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

G7国家有，加拿大、法国、德国、意大利、日本、英国和美国，加上欧盟，欧盟国家有：奥地利、比利时、保加利亚、克罗地亚、塞浦路斯共和国、捷克共和国、丹麦、爱沙尼亚、芬兰、法国、德国、希腊、匈牙利、爱尔兰、意大利、拉脱维亚、立陶宛、卢森堡、马耳他、荷兰、波兰、葡萄牙、罗马尼亚、斯洛伐克、斯洛文尼亚，西班牙和瑞典。

Wolfgang Zoellner

Ran a Korean restaurant in GermanyWed
The G7 represent only 10% of the global population but 45% of the global GDP. It is a informal ‘club’ to discuss matters of importance without binding results.

When the G7 was founded in 1975, it was represented by the then seven most important industrialized countries of the globe. Lateron it was extended to 8 members by Russia but again reduced to seven after Russia annexated Crimea.

In 1975 South Korea and Spain were not known at all as industrialized powers.

As with the United Nations security Council, if you are a member, you will not agree to be replaced by other members. Therefor countries like Brasil, India, Germany applied for a permanent seat, but failed. The same is true with G7. On the other hand, South Korea is too small as a country and by population, while Spain is still too small by GDP to replace any of the old G7 members.

七国集团仅占全球人口的10%，GDP却占全球的GDP。这是一个非正式的“俱乐部”，用来讨论没有约束力的重要事项。

七国集团于1975年成立时，由当时全球七个最重要的工业化国家代表。后来，俄罗斯加入，扩大到8个，但在俄罗斯吞并克里米亚后再次减少到7个。

1975年，韩国和西班牙根本不是工业化国家。

与联合国安理会一样，如果你是安理会成员，你不会同意由其他成员取代。巴西、印度、德国等国申请常任理事国席位，但都失败了。七国集团也是如此。另一方面，韩国作为一个国家和人口规模太小，而西班牙的GDP规模仍然太小，无法取代任何一个旧的七国集团成员国。

Warren Wai
Frequent and critical user of QuoraWed
Spain’s economy was around $1.28 trillion in 2022. Canada’s economy was around $1.84 trillion and Korea’s was $18.5 trillion.

Spain was excluded since its economy is in the mid-teens globally.

Korea was excluded for unspoken reasons. It cannot be racism, or that one privileged white nation in the form of Japan is sufficient. It cannot be Korea lacks geo-political significance compared to Canada. It cannot be Korea not being a de ocracy or not being a staunch US ally.

2022年，西班牙经济规模约为1.28万亿美元。加拿大的经济规模约为1.84万亿美元，韩国为1.85万亿美元。

西班牙被排除在外，因为其经济在全球处于十几名左右。

韩国被排除在外的原因不言而喻。这不可能是种族主义，也不可能日本代表就足够了。与加拿大相比，韩国不可能缺乏地缘政治意义。韩国是一个民 主国家，不可能不是美国的坚定盟友

Joel Vaillancourt

Because Canada is the 7th largest economy in the world in an organization that only allows the top 7 largest countries in the world to participate.

South Korea is 13 and Spain is 16 and we don’t count the EU as a country.

因为加拿大是世界第七大经济体，这个组织只允许世界前7大国家参加。

韩国是世界第13大经济体，西班牙第16，我们不把欧盟算作一个国家。