Washington’s Cold Peace Is Seoul’s Hot Risk
A negotiated accommodation with a nuclear-armed North Korea may become unavoidable for the United States and South Korea. But an agreement is not the same…
Ship Repair Offers Best Pathway for Modernizing the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
There is growing momentum in the U.S.-South Korea shipbuilding relationship, driven by declines in U.S. naval power, where delays in new ship construction have converged with a maintenance…
Why South Korea Cannot Reach Carbon Neutrality on Renewables Alone
South Korea’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2025, sets a target of reducing…
South Korea Wants to Be a NATO Partner, Not Just a Vendor
South Korea is now the second-largest arms supplier to NATO’s European members, but the sales remain a series of bilateral transactions rather than incorporated within…
The U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Is a Test Case for South Korean Uranium Enrichment
On July 22, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. However, the future of the agreement became uncertain the following day when President…
Q2 2026 U.S.-South Korea Trade and Investment Ledger
America’s new tariff framework comes alongside significant South Korean investment into strategic sectors across the United States, and Q2 2026 showed this pattern taking hold…
South Korean Firms Are Powering U.S. Energy Storage
The rapid expansion of AI data centers and advanced manufacturing is driving up electricity consumption in the United States. Early this year, the U.S. Energy…
Betting on the Future: Prediction Markets, Cryptocurrency, and South Korean Law
South Korea’s first criminal investigation of prediction market users has set the state’s instinct to police gambling against its ambition to lead in digital assets….
What the San Francisco AI Summit Means for U.S.-Korea Tech Cooperation
The AI summit that South Korean President Lee Jae Myung convenes in San Francisco tomorrow is organized around two major growth drivers of the global…
Explaining South Korea’s Stock Market Boom
The KOSPI, South Korea’s benchmark stock market index, nearly doubled during the first half of 2026, the largest increase in the world (Figure 1, Panel…