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This article was published in The Korea Times on June 12, 2024. In the wake of rapprochement between Korea and Japan, much of the focus has been on the strengthening…
This article was published in The Korea Times on April 10, 2024. In March, Russia vetoed a routine resolution to extend the mandate of the U.N. Panel of Experts. Moscow’s…
KEI President Scott Snyder was interviewed by the Voice of America Korean Service for the “Washington Talk” show. This video was published in Voice of America on March 30, 2024. …
This article was published in The Diplomat on March 30, 2024. Nowadays conversations with South Korean counterparts begin and end with concerns about former U.S. President Donald Trump’s possible return…
For Immediate Release September 8, 2024 WASHINGTON, DC — The Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) is pleased to announce the Ambassadors' Dialogue, which is a high-profile outreach program featuring the current Republic of Korea Ambassador to the United States Hyundong Cho and the current U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Philip S. Goldberg.…
“You can either buy clothes or buy pictures.” (Gertrude Stein) The air will be filled with a different kind of buzz in Seoul this week as it hosts the third annual international art fair, Frieze Seoul. Over 110 leading art galleries worldwide will assemble for four days at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Center in…
The public sector financed 76 percent of healthcare in OECD countries in 2021 using compulsory health insurance and government programs (Figure 1, Panel A). Korea is an outlier in this regard, as only 62.3 percent of its health expenditures were covered through mandatory financing schemes. The low share of mandatory financing in Korea was offset…
On July 18, South Korean Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy Ahn Duk-geun announced that Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) had been selected by the Czech Republic as the preferred bidder for the construction of new nuclear reactors, the largest investment project in the history of the Czech Republic, valued at approximately 24 trillion…