After the first meeting between North and South in 1972, the North Korean delegation already noted a marked change in the Korean language that both sides spoke, changes that have made a marked difference in each dialect that goes beyond regional differences.
According to at least one poll, South Korea has a higher opinion of the United States than the United States has of itself.
Recently, there has been some discussion among certain opinion makers in the United States claiming that the U.S. bears all the burden in defending allies against potential North Korean aggression.
With the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II over the weekend, KEI takes a look back at what has changed on the Korean Peninsula from the 1945 to today.
For South Korean children, studying abroad and mastering English used to be the key to success, prompting waves of students to head overseas for their diplomas
In a June article, Foreign Affairs magazine decried the “decline of international studies,” citing a broad trend of “the scaling back of a long-term national commitment to education and research focused on international affairs.”
For Korea, the potential impact of a Greek default or Grexit would not be so much from Greece itself, which only accounts for 0.2 percent of Korea’s exports, but if the crisis were to spread beyond Greece.
This has been an incredibly fascinating past several weeks to anyone who has followed the politics of trade policy in the U.S. Congress.
The House of Representatives is experiencing the topsy-turvy ride otherwise known as trade politics
What does the looming vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the President have to do with Korea?