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U.S.-Korea Relations at 70: A Post-Summit Evaluation

On April 28, 2023, the KEI team discussed the outcome of the Biden-Yoon summit and what it signifies for the future of the US-South Korea relationship. Event description below: “On…

May 4, 2023

Troy Stangarone, Sang Kim, Kathleen Stephens, Mark Tokola, Clint Work

Impeachment, Part 2: Consequences

This week, Congress introduced 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump. One for abuse of power and one for obstruction of Congress. The ongoing confrontation between the White House and…

December 13, 2019

Impeachment, Part 1: Precedent

The ongoing confrontation between the White House and U.S. Congress will likely engross President Donald Trump’s political attention in the months ahead. Given his central role in executing highly delicate…

Topic: Inter-Korean

December 10, 2019

Yong Kwon

What the Korean Wave Brought to the American Table: Michael Hong

Long before BTS and Psy made their debut, a handful of entrepreneurs were laying the foundations for what would become the Korean Wave in the United States. With Korean pop culture…

January 25, 2019

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Publication

Moving the KORUS FTA Forward in a Time of Economic Uncertainty

Despite the clear benefits of KORUS FTA for the United States and Korea, it has been stalled for nearly 18 months due to disputes over U.S. beef and the sale…

May 25, 2011

Troy Stangarone

Summary of Proceedings

In important respects this conference reflected two somewhat contrasting perspectives on the just completed U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). Those two perspectives, the one dealing principally with specifically economic…

May 25, 2011

Bernard K. Gordon

The Global Crisis and Korea's International Financial Policies

The global crisis that was ignited by the meltdown in the U.S. subprime mortgage market is a dramatic illustration of just how interdependent our economic and financial systems have become.…

May 25, 2011

Thomas D. Willett

Korea in Asia: Korea's Development, Asian Regionalism, and U.S.-Korea Economic Relations

The goal of this study is to explore the current state of U.S.-Korea trade and economic relations, with special emphasis on the impact of the rise of Asian regionalism and…

May 25, 2011

Claude Barfield

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Peninsula Blog

Another Accident Suggests Public Safety Shortcomings

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 On Lunar New Year’s Day, six people died…

February 6, 2020

Korea View

New Prospects for U.S.-Korea-Japan Cooperation

By Emanuel Pastreich The difficulties in promoting cooperation between Seoul, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. in response to the rising technological and economic strength of China has been the hot topic of discussion in the United States. The standard answer is to attribute the difficulties to historical issues that have created an emotional gap between these…

January 30, 2020

The China-Russia Security Council Resolution Part 2: Chinese Motives

By Stephan Haggard and Liuya Zhang In the last post on the proposed China-Russia Security Council resolution, we showed that exempting just two product categories—seafood and textiles—would restore as much as 50% of North Korea’s exports. But that does not capture the full extent of China’s ability to keep the regime afloat, even if we…