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Rhetoric Vs. Reality: Seoul and Washington’s Strategic Alignment on Taiwan

Seoul has gradually adopted a more outspoken position regarding the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and framed it in increasingly expansive terms—as a regional and global…

January 4, 2024

Korea’s Cultural Wave: The Story Behind the Strength

From K-pop to K-drama and food, Korean culture has taken the globe by storm. Korean artists are topping the Billboard charts, Korean films are winning Oscars, and Korean kimbap at…

December 28, 2023

Kathleen Stephens, Jie-ae Sohn

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

The ROK-U.S. Alliance at 70: Expanding Diplomatic Horizons Through Public Diplomacy

The United States and the Republic of Korea have been celebrating the 70th anniversary of the alliance and the 120th anniversary of Korean immigration to the United States throughout 2023.…

December 14, 2023

Kathleen Stephens, Yuri Kim, Donald Heflin, Maureen Cormack, Jie-ae Sohn, Hyundong Cho

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South Korea's Progressives and the U.S.-ROK Alliance

As the reigning consensus has it, the U.S.-ROK alliance is one of the most successful of its kind in history. The alliance not only succeeded in defending South Korea from…

May 25, 2011

Hahm Chaibong

U.S. and ROK Strategic Doctrines and the U.S.-ROK Alliance

The year 2006 witnessed increasing concern among both Americans and South Koreans that their alliance of more than 50 years might be in jeopardy. Differences between the two governments over…

May 25, 2011

David Straub

Economic Interdependence Between Korea and the United States

May 25, 2011

Lee Ho-jin

The Matter of the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Negotiations

May 25, 2011

Edward M. Graham

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Peninsula Blog

Why Shipbuilding is a Silver Lining amid the U.S. Tariff Turmoil

There appears to be a bright spot amid the global market turmoil after President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcements on April 2. In the first-ever phone call between Trump and his acting South Korean counterpart, Han Duck-soo, the two leaders mentioned shipbuilding as a potential area of cooperation in the aftermath of the tariff…

April 15, 2025

Je Heon (James) Kim

The Beef with Tariffs (II): A Closer Look at Deficit-Driven Tariffs

The first blog post of this series for the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) assessed the propriety of the White House’s estimate of South Korean tariffs on U.S. goods and its imposition of reciprocal tariffs at 25 percent. There are several ways that the Donald Trump administration could have derived the number, but it…

April 8, 2025

Je Heon (James) Kim, Nils Wollesen Osterberg

The Beef With Tariffs (I): South Korea’s True Tariff on U.S. Goods Is Far Lower Than White House Claims

The market roiled, web searches spiked, and the media was in a frenzy after President Donald Trump unveiled his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Not surprisingly, the 10 percent baseline tariff on all goods with an additional “discounted” reciprocal tariff generated mostly negative reactions. As the president held up a large placard explaining that nearly every country…

April 3, 2025

Je Heon (James) Kim, Nils Wollesen Osterberg

Future of Korea in New Mexico

From March 19 to 21, 2025, the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) led a Future of Korea (FOK) delegation to Albuquerque, New Mexico, with KEI’s Economic Policy Analyst Tom Ramage, the U.S. Department of State’s Military Advisor for Japanese, Korean, and Mongolian Affairs Ki Suh Jung, and the South Korean Embassy’s First Secretary Hae…