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The Peninsula blog is a project of the Korea Economic Institute. It is designed to provide a wide ranging forum for discussion of the foreign policy, economic, and social issues that impact the Korean peninsula.
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Samsung's New Investments in Texas Mean Big Things for the United States
By Tom Ramage
April 17, 2024
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The North Korean Human Rights Act Expired in 2022 – No Signs that Congress is Moving to Reauthorize the Law
By Robert King
April 8, 2024
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Digital Trade Wars: What U.S. Policymakers Need To Understand about South Korea’s Tech Regulation
By Haeyoon Kim
March 28, 2024
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5 Interesting Documentaries about South Korea
Jenna Gibson
December 14, 2016
Historically, local documentaries have not been that popular in South Korea – the first widely successful documentary in the country was 2008’s “Old Partner,” which shattered domestic records just by attracting 100,000 viewers in the first few weeks after its release. Since then, more independent films have begun to crop up, telling real-life stories about different aspects of Korea. The five films below represent some of those stories.
Korea Should Take the Lead and Create a Rump TPP
December 5, 2016
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 Leadership Vacuum for the Korean Economy
December 1, 2016
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.
Tightening the Noose on North Korea: Do the New UN Sanctions Finally Get It Right?
Troy Stangarone
November 30, 2016
The United Nations sanctions on North Korea’s fourth nuclear test were flawed. The new round tries to get it right.
Kim Jong Un: Crossing the Rubicon and Slipping on the Stones for Economic Reform
William Brown
November 28, 2016
Not all is easy for Kim Jong-un as he must soon make important and probably irrevocable decisions with respect to how far he will allow the market economy to expand.
South Korea’s Concern with Nation Branding Strategies
November 22, 2016
There are two means that a nation can use to influence the preferences of international audiences: hard power and soft power.
South Korea and Its Evolving Response to Refugees
November 17, 2016
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.
To a Clean and Honorable Society
November 15, 2016
Two seemingly unrelated events point to a larger problem in Korea.
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