2025 Year in Review: Policy Uncertainty and Global Economic Resilience
Korea’s cosmetics industry has moved beyond trend-driven consumption and matured into a key export pillar.
The Rise of K-Beauty and the Economic Implications for South Korea
Korea’s cosmetics industry has moved beyond trend-driven consumption and matured into a key export pillar.
Why a More Insular Chinese Economy Could Spell Bad News for South Korea
As China revises its plan for self-reliance on technological development, tensions could rise around structural dilemmas this presents to South Korea.
South Korea Walks a Narrow Bridge between China and Japan
Seoul’s careful management of the complex triangular relations in the region takes place against a backdrop of growing global uncertainty.
Korea Policy Series: Explaining the Lee Jae Myung Administration’s China Policy
The Lee administration has pursued a strategy of maximum flexibility in dealing with China, and so far China has reciprocated with measured responses.
2025 Year in Review: U.S.-South Korea Security and Extended Deterrence
The alliance faces a familiar challenge in a more complex environment: maintaining credible deterrence while adapting to evolving threats.
2025 Year in Review: South Korea’s Post-Martial Law Reset
Despite the instability that followed martial law, civilian trust in the military, elections, and the national government reached record highs.
2025 Year in Review: Old Trade Order, Meet the New Trade Order
The new way of doing trade is now largely conditional, transactional, and leveraged by strategic industries
How Lee Jae Myung Hopes to Rebuild Leverage on the Korean Peninsula
A stronger focus on defense by denial could enhance stability and reassure Pyongyang that dialogue remains possible.
Japan’s Succession Battle Pits Moderates Against the Right—and Korea Is Watching
The path ahead in Japan is likely to be fraught with ongoing political instability until the party wins a new election and regains its majority.