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Given the growing importance of East Asia to global stability and prosperity, sustaining the five U.S. treaty alliances in the region—Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, Thailand, and the Philippines—will…

On 30 June 2007, U.S. and South Korean trade officials signed the U.S.- Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). The two countries reached the agreement after 10 months of very…

On 1 April 2007 Korea and the United States finally completed their year-long negotiations to conclude the Korea- U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA), which was then signed by the…

President Lee Myung-bak won a landslide victory in 2007. His popularity before the election was obvious, and it came as a surprise to almost no one that he won by…

After the 1946 midterm elections, Republicans gained control of both the US Senate and House of Representatives under the Harry Truman administration. The years between 1947 and 1948 were particularly contentious between the Republican-controlled Congress and the Democrat-controlled White House. Truman had branded the Republican-controlled legislature as the “Do-Nothing Congress” due to the lack of…

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign position to implement tariffs of up to 10 percent—or even 20 percent as his pronouncements have suggested—has grabbed the attention of the international business community. It was also featured prominently in the first and possibly only debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Already, analysts are concerned about the…

Ambassadors Philip Goldberg and Cho Hyundong continued their KEI-sponsored tour of the United States by visiting Austin, Texas, a metropolitan area that strives to be an innovation hub for industry clusters in information technology, clean technology, defense, and advanced technologies. According to Opportunity Austin, the Austin region is rated as the seventh-best city in the…

As part of KEI’s signature Ambassadors’ Dialogue tour, US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Philip Goldberg and Korean Ambassador to the United States Cho Hyundong visited the state of Michigan for site visits to Korean-invested factories, meetings with state leaders, and engagements with students and educators at the University of Michigan. The East-West Center…

Please join KEI and KIEP for a discussion about the first 10 years of KORUS and the future of the U.S.-Korea economic relationship.