Nov 30, 2017

Soap Operas and Socialism: Dissecting Kim Jong-un’s Evolving Policy Priorities through TV Dramas in North Korea

By Jean Lee

Romance, humor, tension — everyone loves a good sitcom, even North Koreans. But in North Korea, TV dramas are more than mere entertainment. They play...

Nov 16, 2017

Korean Firms’ Sustainability Practices and Their Role in the Green Economy

By Younsung Kim

Companies in industrialized nations have embraced environmental protection and sustainability as part of their international competitive strategies. The trend toward proactive environmental management has also...

Oct 3, 2017

A Revolutionary State: North Korea’s Support of Non-State Actors, Past Policies and Future Issues

By Benjamin Young

Forged in the blood and strife of the anti-Japanese struggle during the colonial era, the North Korean revolution, with Kim Il-sung at its core, was...

Sep 12, 2017

East Asia’s Regional Financial Governance: Assessing Korea’s Centrality

By Ramon Pacheco Pardo

In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, the multilayered international financial governance regime has been strengthened. In East Asia, this regime includes an ASEAN+3...

Jun 7, 2017

The Limits of Identity Politics and the Strategic Case for U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateralism

By Brad Glosserman

The ROK-Japan relationship seemingly found a floor after the downward spiral that marked the end of the Lee Myung-Bak presidency and the first three years...

May 24, 2017

New Frontiers of Cooperation in U.S.-Korea Relations: Opportunities for Economic Engagement

By Sean Connell

In October 2015, the U.S. and Korean governments announced “New Frontiers of Cooperation” for the bilateral agenda following the summit meeting between U.S. President Barack...

Apr 17, 2017

Continuity in South Korean Foreign Policy

By Jeffrey Robertson

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) launched in August 2008 and transformed into a treaty-based inter-governmental organization in October 2012. The GGGI positioned South Korea...

Feb 15, 2017

The Making of a Global Economic Player? An Appraisal of South Korea’s Role in Myanmar

By Matteo Fumagalli

Suddenly and unexpectedly, after several decades as Asia’s backwater and basket case of international development, Myanmar was thrust to the center stage of international attention...

Jan 17, 2017

Exchange Rate Risk, Stock Transactions and Financial Integration: The Republic of Korea and Japan

By Rajarshi Mitra

This paper examines the short-run and long-run relation between volatility in the real effective exchange rate and stock returns in the Republic of Korea. A...

Dec 5, 2016

North Korea Policy: Recommendations For The Trump Administration

By David Straub

Among the most important issues that will confront the new Trump administration is how to deal with North Korea. Before Mr. Trump leaves office, North...

Nov 16, 2016

A Fork in the Road? Korea and China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative

By Balbina Hwang

In 2013, two countries in East Asia launched their respective visions for an East-meets-West integrated region: China pronounced one of the most ambitious foreign economic...

Oct 28, 2016

Labor Market Rigidities and Social Inequality in Korea: The Role of Legal, Economic and Social Governance

By Vladimir Hlasny

This study explores the organization of the Korean labor market, systemic faults in it leading to undesirable outcomes and their determinants, and consequences for workers...