Korea, North

      Since the famine of the 1990s, North Korea has continued to face periods of chronic food shortages. However, the humanitarian needs of the people in North Korea…

    North Korea has engaged in various forms of economic reforms and marketization attempts such as establishing Special Economic Zones and obtaining Foreign Direct Investment. Yet, many of North…

  In this episode, we talk with Dr. Adam Cathcart of the University of Leeds and of Sino-NK about China-North Korea relations. Dr. Cathcart has just written an Academic Paper Series report…

    In the mid-1990s, North Korea experienced a famine that by some estimates wiped out 10 percent of the population. Though many at the time thought the regime would…

By Robert King On September 25 of this year, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced it was beginning radio broadcasts in the Korean language. BBC policy and practice aims broadcasts to speakers of a particular language, not to citizens or residents of a particular country. Its Korean language broadcasting, nevertheless, is clearly directed principally to…

By Hayeon Carol Park On September 21st, Uber Technologies, Inc. launched UberSHARE, a car pool service in South Korea, just a month after it launched the restaurant delivery app UberEATS. The successful launch of these services raise an important question: why is UberX still not offered in South Korea? The answer is simple – the…

By Mark Tokola There is a small but growing body of commentary arguing that Washington and Seoul are drifting apart on North Korea policy.  At the headline level, there clearly is a difference in tone between President Trump’s tough rhetoric and President Moon Jae-in’s insistence that the only acceptable resolution to the North Korean nuclear…

By Hwan Kang When Moon Jae-in was elected after former President Park Geun-hye was impeached, Koreans expected major policy makeovers. Indeed, the Moon Administration is trying to meet expectations by addressing some of Korea’s long lasting problems by announcing progressive measures such as an increase in the minimum wage and regulating the real estate market.…

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