This will be the second time that the United States has pushed to renegotiate the KORUS FTA, which was originally signed in 2007 but not implemented until 2012.

Contingencies are needed in the case of a North Korean attack to prepare better interagency coordination and security in a homogenous megacity like Seoul.

Moon Jae-in is showing he is different not by tearing apart Park Geun-hye’s legacy entirely, but rather by utilizing part of it to his advantage.

In July 2017, South Korea’s Minimum Wage Commission finalized the decision to increase the country’s minimum wage by 16 percent to 7,530 won ($6.60) per hour in 2018.

The expression “Korea Passing” is being used more frequently these days as North Korea and the U.S. are talking mostly to each other.

As President Trump addressed the UN he asserted the need for strong national sovereignty and called on the UN to resolve the threat from North Korea.