Fulfilling its role as a leading “middle power,” Korea should move to join a rump Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that would include the eleven nation states who negotiated the TPP with the United States.
The South Korean economy is drifting like a ship which has lost its captain while the ‘Choi Soon-sil Scandal,’ a civilian who has no official title, has shaken South Korea for over a month.
There are two means that a nation can use to influence the preferences of international audiences: hard power and soft power.
To see how the global refugee crisis has affected South Korea it is important to not only look at the present but look at the past and see how South Korea’s refugee policy has evolved.
Two seemingly unrelated events point to a larger problem in Korea.
Unlike past U.S. elections, President-elect Donald Trump has made trade a centerpiece of his campaign.
What can we say about U.S.-Korean relations under the Trump Administration?
Do claims of the KORUS FTA costing the United States 100,000 jobs hold up?
International trade has become a top-tier political issue during this U.S. election cycle that has come together to create a “perfect storm” for candidates at all levels in both political parties.
As the Korean economy started growing, its relations with the labor sector also started changing, and so has one of its most basic factors, the wages of the workers.