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Publication

East Asia at the Crossroads: A Comparative Study on Taiwan’s and Korea’s Reconciliation with Adversaries

Security and political issues over the Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula remain as flashpoints in East Asia since WWII. The authors argue that economic interdependence, together with negotiations and…

November 18, 2013

Yeh-chung Lu, Byung Kwang Park, Tung-chieh Tsai

South Korea’s Defense Industry: Increasing Domestic Capabilities and Global Opportunities

Since the end of the Korean War, the United States has been the largest supplier of defense systems to the Republic of Korea (ROK). The imperative of maintaining military interoperability…

November 11, 2013

Richard Weitz

Assessing Political Stability in Post-Kim Jong-il North Korea

December 4, 2012

Hyung-Gu Lynn

Korea's Economy 2012 - Full Edition PDF

In 2011, the Republic of Korea became one of only a handful of nations to pass the $1 threshold in total trade as Korean trade continued to expand an impressive…

November 30, 2012

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Podcasts

[Rebroadcast] The Cleanest Race: An Interview with Author B.R. Myers

With Washington DC stuck in a snowstorm, please enjoy this episode of Korean Kontext originally published in 2012. B.R. Myers is the author of “The Cleanest Race” and regular…

January 22, 2016

Look Back, Look Forward: Predictions for the Korean Peninsula

Every January, KEI publishes its predictions for the 10 issues to watch for on the Korean Peninsula in the coming year. Then, in December, we revisit our predictions to see…

January 15, 2016

North Korea’s House of Cards: Understanding the Kim Jong Un Regime

North Korea watchers have been trying for years to understand the inner workings of the reclusive regime. With the country launching its 4th nuclear test this week, recognizing the structure and…

January 8, 2016

The Kim Monarchy: Reframing Political Legitimacy in North Korea

Since the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994 there have been numerous predictions that the collapse of the North Korean political system would be imminent, yet the Kim dynasty continues…

November 20, 2015

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Peninsula Blog

Moon Takes on the Housing Market

This briefing comes from Korea View, a weekly newsletter published by the Korea Economic Institute. Korea View aims to cover developments that reveal trends on the Korean Peninsula but receive little attention in the United States. If you would like to sign up, please find the online form here. What Happened The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport confirmed plans to…

August 14, 2019

Korea View

State Department Report finds North Korea Policies Encourage Human Trafficking

By Robert R. King On June 20, 2019, the U.S. Department of State released the 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report. There is a certain irony that at a time when the President of the United States is trading love letters with Kim Jong-un and barely even mentioning human rights issues in their summit conversations, the…

July 24, 2019

Robert King

Reflecting on Face-to-Face Diplomacy with Kim Jong-un

By Olga Krasnyak What do summits mean? Summit or face-to-face diplomacy with Kim Jong-un was a feature and a shift in Northeast Asian politics in 2018. This trend has continued in 2019 with a recent brief interpersonal encounter with President Donald Trump at DMZ on June 30th. While there is often a certain portion of…

July 11, 2019

External Pressure Drives Korea’s Labor Reforms

This briefing comes from Korea View, a weekly newsletter published by the Korea Economic Institute. Korea View aims to cover developments that reveal trends on the Korean Peninsula but receive little attention in the United States. If you would like to sign up, please find the online form here. What Happened The European Union (EU) formally requested the South…