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Publication

Torn Between the Two Trade Giants: U.S.-China Trade Disputes and Korea

An old Korean proverb says that when two whales fight it is the shrimps whose backs are crushed. Maybe that proverb best describes Korea’s situation on the trade front these…

June 15, 2010

Exchange Rate Arrangements of Transitional Economies and their Implications for the Two Koreas

The purpose of this research is to identify an exchange rate regime that would be suitable for North Korea to achieve its goal of economic reform. To do so, we…

January 25, 2010

Jin-Gil Jeong, Sandip Mukherji, Youngho Lee

North Korea and the China Model: The Switch from Hostility to Acquiescence

The global community has plainly noticed the critical role played by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in inducing change in North Korea’s diplomatic behavior, particularly with respect to the…

May 25, 2007

The Korean Pivot: Challenges and Opportunitites from Evolving Chinese-Russian and U.S.-Japanese Security Ties

This paper provides an analytical assessment of the implications for North and South Korea of recent changes in the Chinese-Russian and U.S.-Japanese security relationships.The evolution of these two security relationships…

March 25, 2007

Richard Weitz

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Podcasts

Charting China’s Use of Armed Coercion: James Siebens (Part 2)

Building on last year’s “Rethinking Korea initiative,” in 2024 KEI will continue to explore the evolution of US-Korea relations, Korea’s place in the world, rapid changes in Korean society, and…

February 29, 2024

Clint Work, James Siebens

Charting China’s Use of Armed Coercion: James Siebens (Part 1)

February 22, 2024

Clint Work, James Siebens

Economic Security and U.S.-China Competition: The View From North Korea

KEI is pleased to hold a program on Economic Security and U.S.-China Competition: The View From North Korea. One country is conspicuously missing from existing discussions about the dilemmas and…

January 11, 2024

Clint Work, Rachel Minyoung Lee

South Korea: Caught in the Crosshairs of U.S. China Competition Over Semiconductors

Countries with advanced semiconductor industries are caught in the middle of growing U.S.-China competition in technology focused on advanced computing. While some countries with key technology companies in the toolmaking…

December 21, 2023

Clint Work, Paul Triolo

Peninsula Blog

South Korea’s Role in International Development

By Joy Kim South Korea is currently the world’s 15th largest economy. This fact strikes many as amazing given that Korea’s Gross National Product (GNP) per capita increased by more than 243 times over the span of 50 years, from $82 in 1961 to $20,000 in 2006. The baby boom generation who were born in…

July 24, 2012

Impact of the U.S. and EU FTAs on Korea

By Troy Stangarone In recent days there has been significant discussion on the impact of Korea’s FTAs with the United States and the EU. The agreement with the EU has been in place almost a year now after having gone into effect last July 1, while the KORUS FTA has only been in effect since…

June 22, 2012

Troy Stangarone

Finishing the Korean War Memorial

By Troy Stangarone On the morning of June 25, 1950 the sound of exploding shells awoke Koreans and U.S. troops alike in the city of Kaesong. With the sound of those early morning explosions, the lives of more than 300,000 soldiers from the United States and countless Koreans would be changed forever. Many who would…

June 7, 2012

Troy Stangarone

Role Playing More Than a Game in South Korea

By Caryn Fisher The ongoing trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the alleged mass killer from Norway who is undergoing trial for the murder of 77 people, reopens the concept of a link between violent video games and acts of violence in real life. During his trial, Breivik stated that he used the game “Call of…