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Exploring South Korea’s Digital Trade Environment: Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Companies
By Sunghee Chung
March 20, 2025
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The Consequences of Foreign Assistance Cuts for U.S.-South Korea Cooperation
By Michael Schiffer
March 18, 2025
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How the Trump Administration Views Reciprocal Tariffs
By Nils Wollesen Osterberg
March 13, 2025
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Exploring South Korea’s Digital Trade Environment: Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Companies
Sunghee Chung
March 20, 2025
The digital trade landscape in South Korea offers significant opportunities for U.S. companies, but it also presents a range of challenges.
The Consequences of Foreign Assistance Cuts for U.S.-South Korea Cooperation
Michael Schiffer
March 18, 2025
U.S. development cooperation with South Korea has reinforced shared values, strengthened civil society, and enhanced economic resilience.
Lessons for South Korea From Trump’s First Two Months
Scott Snyder
March 17, 2025
It is now clear that the circumstances and context surrounding Trump 2.0 will be dramatically different from the first Trump administration.
South Korea Mulls Nuclear Latency
Daniel Sneider
March 14, 2025
Anxiety about U.S. security commitments is opening conversations in Seoul about reprocessing spent fuel from power reactors to extract plutonium or enrich uranium
How the Trump Administration Views Reciprocal Tariffs
Nils Wollesen Osterberg
March 13, 2025
Trump’s tariff saber-rattling is an opportunity to redefine the U.S.-South Korea relationship in a way that advances the national interest.
Making America Chipless Again
Tom Ramage
March 7, 2025
If realized, the repeal of the CHIPS Act potentially affects the direction of billions of dollars of targeted investment in semiconductors.
Unraveling Threads of the United States’ Clean Tech Future
Tom Ramage
March 3, 2025
States have enjoyed more than USD 130 billion from clean-energy investments, making the IRA’s full abrogation difficult to imagine.
South Korea’s Efforts to Adapt to the Impact of Climate Change
Randall S. Jones
February 27, 2025
South Korea's climate targets are ambitious, as Korea was the world’s thirteenth-largest GHG emitter in 2023.
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