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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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Happy Halloween: Korea Shows a Growing Interest in the Spooky Holiday
Jenna Gibson
October 30, 2015
Halloween as we know it in the United States is still not widely celebrated in South Korea. Trick or treating is limited to kindergarten parties and English hagwons, and you’re unlikely to see many jack-o-lanterns or skeletons decorating peoples’ homes.
Global Korea? The Potential Long-term Implications of Recent Cuts to English Education
Jenna Gibson
October 26, 2015
Last month, the Korean Ministry of Education announced major changes to the way South Korean students will learn English. Some of them are positive, and can potentially help ease the overwhelming classroom workload for Korean students. But these new policies may also have some unintended side effects.
Don’t Fret – The U.S. Military is Not Going Away
Phil Eskeland
October 23, 2015
Yesterday, for just the fifth time in his tenure, President Barack Obama took the highly unusual step of vetoing a bill that passed the normally grid-locked Congress.
Congress Wants to Up the Pressure on North Korean Human Rights Violators
Jenna Gibson
October 19, 2015
Earlier this month, three U.S. senators took on North Korea (DPRK) by introducing a broad sanctions bill aimed at addressing concerns about cyberwarfare and the North’s continued nuclear ambitions.
The Korean and American Presidents Should Discuss Work-Family Balance Issues
October 13, 2015
Earlier this year in state of the nation addresses, both presidents stressed the importance of enhancing the lives of middle class families and their centrality to revitalizing their national economies. The work-family balance is no longer a matter of individual life, but a national (even global) issue that governments and policymakers should pick up and do something about.
How a Northeast Asian Development Bank Could Succeed
Kyle Ferrier
October 9, 2015
Still in the nascent stage of planning, a Northeast Asia Development Bank would serve as a multilateral development bank (MDB) to attract investment in Northeast Asia, specifically intending to incentivize the DPRK to denuclearize through access to external capital for development.
Native Korean Religions: The Old and the New
Juni Kim
October 8, 2015
Although hardly a new phenomenon, a number of native religious movements both large and small have attracted scores of devout Korean followers, intermingled with political causes, and in some cases have notoriously landed in news headlines.
September 2015: Tough Rhetoric between Deal and Potential Meetings in Inter-Korean Relations
Nicholas Hamisevicz
October 8, 2015
After the month of August featured shooting, shouting, and a negotiated joint statement, September mainly focused on laying the groundwork necessary to implement the August 25 agreement or to scuttle it.
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