There is a desire to replicate the Helsinki process in Northeast Asia as a tool to decrease tensions on the Korean peninsula and to improve the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Just prior to President Obama’s recent trip to Asia, critics of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) blamed the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) for the...

If present trends continue, the 2014 U.S. merchandise trade deficit with Korea is on track to be less than the 2013 level.

Last November, after many months of consideration, South Korea expressed its interest in joining the 12 other Pacific Rim nations in participating in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.

If Korean companies are able to exceed, or at a minimum match the world-wide average of an engaged workforce, government efforts to foster a creative economy will have a greater chance to succeed.

While more than two-thirds of all U.S. states exceeded the average international comparative score of 500, South Korea outpaced them all in math, along with every other country in the world, and all but two U.S. states and two other nations in science.