Here is a brief look at the current state of the four major political parties in South Korea today.

Among the big Korean films of 2016, two of the biggest explored the colonial Japanese period, but they couldn’t be more different.

President Donald Trump did not take long in fulfilling his campaign promise to pull out of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Just three days into his presidency, he formally withdrew the United States from the TPP and began to honor his pledge to change the way the United States does trade.

As the Trump administration begins to build its foreign policy, what should its agenda be for relations with South Korea and handling North Korea?

For the last eight years, we’ve seen a relationship that has grown beyond the Cold War confines of the threat from North Korea and that has begun to evolve into more of a partnership that works together both in the region and on the global stage.

KEI Communications Director Jenna Gibson, host of the KEI podcast Korean Kontext, recently interviewed Major General James Walton, Director for Transformation and Restationing for U.S. Forces Korea (USFK).