Are Korea – India Relations Set to Improve in 2015?
Recent meetings were important to quickly connect the Park Geun-hye administration with the new leadership in India under Prime Minister Modi.
U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security gives huge New Year’s Gift to U.S. and Korea Energy Consumers
On December 30, 2014, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which regulates the exports of certain sensitive items from the United States, gave a gift to U.S. and Korean energy producers and consumers.
Opportunities for U.S.-Korea Energy Collaboration
Changes in the global energy market provide a great opportunity to U.S. and Korea to generate mutual benefits through enhanced energy collaboration between the two countries.
The Growing Challenges of Household Debt in Korea
According to a recent Bank of Korea (BOK) release, Korea’s household debt reached its historically highest level at the end of the third quarter in 2014.
What Does an Immigration Executive Order Have To Do With Trade and What Does It Mean for Korea?
Within the next several hours, President Barack Obama is expected to sign an Executive Order to allow certain undocumented immigrants the right to remain and work in the United States. What does this have to do with trade?
Helsinki Accords for Northeast Asia?
There is a desire to replicate the Helsinki process in Northeast Asia as a tool to decrease tensions on the Korean peninsula and to improve the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Three Questions About the Korea-China FTA
South Korea’s ambition to become a regional free trade hub in East Asia took another step towards reality as South Korea and China announced the outline of a conclusion of their bilateral FTA negotiations
Six Implications from the Mid-Term Elections for U.S Policy Towards East Asia
With Republicans winning a majority in the Senate for the first time in eight years, President Obama will face a Republican Congress for his final two years in office.
Is Kim Jong-un Being Pushed Out … or Just Recuperating?
While Kim Jong-un may be ill for now, each day he is not seen increases the possibility that he is being sidelined.
September 2014: Two Good Opportunities, But No Big Meetings in Inter-Korean Relations
In September, there were two chances for North and South Korea to have high-level meetings, yet they were unable to take advantage of those opportunities.