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July 26, 2012 – Korea Economic Institute, in partnership with the Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Cultural Institute of the Embassy of Mexico,…

July 25, 2012 – Korea Economic Institute hosted an official book launch for the KEI Association of Asian Studies publication, "Asia at a Tipping Point: Korea, The Rise of China,…

July 16, 2012 – Korea Economic Institute hosted this year's group of students from the Korea-America Student Conference. The group, whom was stopping off in D.C. as part of one…

By Matthew Tranquada On Monday morning, in a federal courtroom in San Jose, lawyers for Samsung and Apple met to pick a panel of 10 jurors to decide a case worth $2.5 billion in damages for patent infringement. At the heart of the case is Apple’s contention that Samsung’s designs of its Galaxy series of…

The Korea Economic Institute (KEI) and the Project 2049 Institute have entered into a new partnership in 2012 to revitalize the Korea-China Forum which started in 2005. KEI and Project…

By Sarah K. Yun July 27, 2012 marks the 59th anniversary of the armistice agreement that put a pause to the three-year Korean War in 1953. Although the armistice is a significant and still-relevant document in Korean and world history, little attention is paid to the document due to a lack of institutionalization, the challenging…

Korean Kontext recently spoke to Gordon Flake of the Mike and Maureen Mansfield Foundation for a conversation about Korea’s rising prominence as a “middle power”.  Focussing on South Korea’s rapidly…

By Joy Kim South Korea is currently the world’s 15th largest economy. This fact strikes many as amazing given that Korea’s Gross National Product (GNP) per capita increased by more than 243 times over the span of 50 years, from $82 in 1961 to $20,000 in 2006. The baby boom generation who were born in…