The Political Economy of Trustpolitik: What is Ahead for North-South Trade and Investment?

Park Geun-hye’s Trustpolitik envisioned incremental, step-by-step exchanges, including economic ones, that would build trust. The strategy was disrupted by North Korean provocations during the first...

Considerations for Korea and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks on the verge of completion, Korea has announced that it will begin consultations for joining the regional trade agreement...

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...

Part I – Overview and Macroeconomic Issues

Contents of this Section: Korea’s Economic Prospects and Challenges Thomas Rumbaugh – Division Chief for the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund...

Part II – The Future of Korean Trade Policy

Contents of this Section: Korea’s Trade Structure and its Policy Challenges Lee Junkyu – Senior International Economic Adviser, Ministry of Strategy and Finance, Republic of...

Part III – Korea’s Role in Economic Development

Contents of this Section: The Secret Success of U.S. Aid to South Korea Andrew S. Natsios – Executive Professor at the George H.W. Bush School...

Part IV – Korea’s Role in Asian Integration

Contents of this Section Financial Integration in Asia: Development and Korea’s Role Park Young-Joon – Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Social Sciences at Ajou...

Part V – Prospects for North Korean Economic Reform

Contents of this Section The Sunshine Policy is Not, and was Not, a Failed Policy Moon Chung-in – Professor in the Department of Political Science...

The Political Economy of South Korea Under The New International Order

Developing a New Growth Model For Korea

Korea’s Trade Structure and Its Policy Challenges

Impacts and Main Issues of the Korea-China FTA