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The Peninsula
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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2025 Year in Review: South Korea’s Post-Martial Law Reset
Nailah-Benā Chambers
January 6, 2026
Despite the instability that followed martial law, civilian trust in the military, elections, and the national government reached record highs.
2025 Year in Review: South Korean Corporate Strategy in the U.S. Market
Soobeen Park
January 6, 2026
Throughout the year, shipbuilding stood out as the area where South Korean firms’ strategic positioning most clearly corresponded with U.S. priorities.
How Russia Hopes to Help North Korea Blunt the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
Benjamin Young
January 5, 2026
The two nations are steeped in the same ideological brew of ultra-nationalism, hyper-militarism, and illiberalism.
2025 Year in Review: U.S.-South Korea Alliance Faces Record North Korean Cybercrime
Sebastian Garcia
January 5, 2026
Washington and Seoul must coordinate more effectively against an evolving North Korean cyber threat.
2025 Year in Review: Kim Jong Un’s Financial Conundrum
William Brown
December 30, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, reporting suggests that financial conditions may be stabilizing—but at levels radically worse than just two years ago.
2025 Year in Review: Old Trade Order, Meet the New Trade Order
Tom Ramage
December 29, 2025
The new way of doing trade is now largely conditional, transactional, and leveraged by strategic industries
Korea Policy Series: Advancing U.S.-South Korea-Japan Cooperation in Natural Gas
Seong-ik Oh
December 26, 2025
America, South Korea, and Japan possess a rare convergence of interests: the world’s leading natural gas exporter and two of its largest importers.
Korea Policy Series: Overcoming Barriers to U.S.-South Korea Shipbuilding Cooperation
Je Heon (James) Kim
December 22, 2025
The question is whether U.S. leadership has the courage to take the necessary steps to create the conditions that will make American shipbuilding great again.