In 2023, KEI has set out on its “Rethinking Korea initiative,” which explores the evolution of U.S.-Korea relations, Korea’s place in the world, and rapid changes in Korean society itself.…
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About Mai Anna Pressley
Mai Anna Pressley is the Operations Manager at the Korea Economic Institute of America. She leads the Institute’s response to the pandemic and coordinates visits by policymakers and researchers from outside Washington, D.C. She also provides editorial assistance to KEI’s weekly newsletter Korea View. Areas of interest for Mai include South Korean history, politics and popular culture, and North Korean human rights. Her writing has been published in the Diplomat Magazine.
Prior to joining KEI in August 2021, she served as the Executive Assistant to the CEO at Community Restoration Centers, Inc. of Stark County, OH. There she provided administrative assistance to the CEO and headed the organization’s pandemic response team. She is also a freelance editor and provides editing and proofreading services to a base of international clients.
Mai Anna graduated from Kent State University in 2012 with a B.A. in International Relations. During her undergraduate studies, she studied abroad in South Korea. Returning to the country to both teach English and pursue a graduate degree, she received a Master’s Degree in International Studies with a focus on East Asia from Korea University’s Graduate School of International Studies in 2017.
October 26, 2023
This article was published on The Diplomat on October 3, 2022. On September 14, a female subway worker was murdered by her ex-coworker in Sindang Station. The 28-year-old victim had filed a…
October 6, 2022
The landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the United States, protecting women’s rights to choose without government restriction. Just as reproductive rights are under threat in the United States, they are just beginning to find footing in South Korea. South Korea instated a blanket ban in 1953, with a 1973 revision allowing…
May 7, 2022
Several major Korean companies made headlines recently for asking their employees to address coworkers and bosses by English nicknames instead of their formal titles. This is not a groundbreaking development - Messenger app company Kakao adopted the use of English names between employees more than 8 years ago. But more companies appear to be getting…
April 25, 2022
At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, the popular Korean boyband BTS was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group. When they left empty-handed, Korean fans and critics alike were outraged - not by the loss itself but by what appeared to be the Grammy’s exploitation of the group’s popularity to improve their own declining viewership. Korean online…
April 11, 2022
South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol recently announced plans to relocate the presidential residence from its current location to Yongsan, a district in Seoul best known for previously hosting a U.S. garrison. The decision has been controversial. Among speculations on Yoon’s unstated rationale, a prominent line of discourse attributes the move to longstanding rumors about the…
April 3, 2022
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