Korean Kontext

Last week, the news of a high-level defection by a North Korean diplomat stationed in London captivated North Korea watchers. For the next few says,…

Ghosts and goblins are everywhere in Korean folktales, causing havoc for people through their antics. Equally common are the shamans who act as intermediaries, helping…

For many years, South Korea has been a homogeneous country. But with more foreigners coming to live in Korea, that is starting to change. In…

In early July, the United States and South Korea announced that they had come to an agreement to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense…

With Election 2016 well underway, KEI's very own Phil Eskeland has been closely following how both the Republican and Democratic parties have been talking about…

In the late 1930s, nearly 200,000 ethnic Koreans were forcibly removed from the Soviet Far East, packed into trains and sent to Central Asia. More…

From nuclear power in the United Arab Emirates to new free trade agreement negotiations opening with Israel, to South Korean President Park Geun Hye's visit to…

With no shortage of North Korean news in 2016, we look back at one of our interviews with Ambassador John Everard of the UK. He…