Weathering the Storm: Korea’s Shipbuilding Industry
Surrounded on three sides by water, Korea is an oceanic nation that depends on the import of 95 percent of its energy sources and the…
Korea Feels Wall Street Crisis …And Reacts
Korea has once again been threatened by financial contagion that started in another country. In 1997, it began with Thai baht; this time, the trouble…
Olympic Aftermath: What Lies Ahead?
When the curtain fell on the XXIX Beijing Olympics, South Korean athletes, with 13 gold, 10 silver, and 8 bronze medals, had proven once again…
U.S. Financial Turmoil And Impact on Korea’s Economy
Black September, Meltdown Monday, America’s Financial 9/11, Financial Tsunami, Perfect Storm, worse financial crisis since the Great Depression 1929… Whatever the term used, recent events…
Explosive Progress in The Six Party Talks: What’s Left to Do When It Is All Done?
Adhering to the action-for-action framework of the February 13, 2007 agreement, North Korea and the United States traded symbolic actions last week that grabbed the…
Is Korea Ready for the “Third Oil Shock?”
International oil prices have risen dramatically, raising the possibility of a “third oil shock.” During the first oil crisis in 1973, the annual average price…
A Firestorm in Korea over U.S. Beef
After more than two years of negotiation, false starts, and delay, Korea announced in April its intention to fully open its market to imports of…
It’s All in the Golf Cart: President of the Republic of Korea, Lee Myung-bak, Visits the United States
For Korea watchers—and particularly for those of us who worked closely on events associated with President Lee’s visit to Washington—April was a very rewarding month….
Restructured Executive Branch Under President Lee
As reported in the previous issue of Korea Insight (“The Bulldozer Moves In: Lee Myung-bak is Inaugurated as the Republic of Korea’s President”), President Lee…
2008 Ambassadors’ Dialogue Program Reaches Audiences Coast-ToCoast
KEI recently completed its seventeenth annual Ambassadors’ Dialogue program. The tour was the third featuring Lee Tae-sik, the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador to the United…