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Director of Academic Affairs
Korea Economic Institute of America
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Ellen Kim is director of academic affairs at KEI. Previously, she was deputy director and senior fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Her research focuses on U.S.-Korea relations, North Korea, and U.S.-China strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific. She joined the Korea Chair upon its inception in 2009 and previously served as associate director  and fellow before her departure in 2015. “She is the coauthor of North Korea’s Sea-Based WMD Capability: The Second Leg of the Nuclear Triad (with Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr. and Victor Cha, Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2025) and China’s Weaponization of Trade: Resistance Through Collective Resilience (with Victor Cha and Andy Lim, Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2026).

She holds a PhD in political science and international relations from the University of Southern California, an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a BA in international relations and Japanese studies from Wellesley College.

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Trump and Lee Cut a Deal but the Devil in the Details Gets the Last Word

On October 28, U.S. President Donald Trump visited Gyeongju, South Korea, for a summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. This visit, which follows his trips to Malaysia and Japan, marks Trump’s second state visit to South Korea since the first one in 2017.…

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Region: Indo-Pacific

November 1, 2025
Ellen Kim

Future of Korea: Building Connections in the Heart of Michigan

The Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) led a delegation to visit Grand Rapids, Michigan, from September 30 to October 2, hosted by the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan. The trip was the fifth and final Future of Korea (FOK) program KEI held this year to foster greater public understanding and appreciation of South…

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Region: Indo-Pacific

October 23, 2025
Ellen Kim

Beijing Parade Underscores the New Divide on the Korean Peninsula

On September 3, the leaders of China, North Korea, and Russia attended a military parade in Beijing, China, to mark the eightieth anniversary of China’s Victory Day. Their meeting received global attention as the top leaders of the three countries reunited for the first time in sixty-six years at the very same Tiananmen Square, where…

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Region: Indo-Pacific

September 9, 2025
Ellen Kim

What Lee Jae Myung’s Washington Debut Says About South Korea’s Foreign Policy

On August 24–26 new South Korean President Lee Jae Myung made his first official visit to the United States, meeting U.S. President Donald Trump and visiting the Hanwha Philly Shipyard to highlight U.S.-South Korea cooperation in the shipbuilding industry. For Trump, this was (ironically) the second time welcoming a progressive South Korean president to the…

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Region: Indo-Pacific

August 27, 2025
Ellen Kim

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