Tariffs on Korean Imports: Implications for U.S. Manufacturing and Investment
Since the Donald Trump administration took office in 2025, the United States has imposed a broad range of tariffs to advance national security, strengthen supply-chain…
Now Is the Time to Manage the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
The security situation on the Korean Peninsula is once again in a state of significant flux after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a scaling back of combined U.S.-South…
South Korea Should Be an Economic Model for Besieged Cuba
As the United States continues to tighten sanctions against Cuba, the country is looking externally for examples of state-driven economic development to apply back home….
Washington’s Cold Peace Is Seoul’s Hot Risk
A negotiated accommodation with a nuclear-armed North Korea may become unavoidable for the United States and South Korea. But an agreement is not the same…
Ship Repair Offers Best Pathway for Modernizing the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
There is growing momentum in the U.S.-South Korea shipbuilding relationship, driven by declines in U.S. naval power, where delays in new ship construction have converged with a maintenance…
Why South Korea Cannot Reach Carbon Neutrality on Renewables Alone
South Korea’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2025, sets a target of reducing…
South Korea Wants to Be a NATO Partner, Not Just a Vendor
South Korea is now the second-largest arms supplier to NATO’s European members, but the sales remain a series of bilateral transactions rather than incorporated within…
The U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Is a Test Case for South Korean Uranium Enrichment
On July 22, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. However, the future of the agreement became uncertain the following day when President…
Betting on the Future: Prediction Markets, Cryptocurrency, and South Korean Law
South Korea’s first criminal investigation of prediction market users has set the state’s instinct to police gambling against its ambition to lead in digital assets….
What the San Francisco AI Summit Means for U.S.-Korea Tech Cooperation
The AI summit that South Korean President Lee Jae Myung convenes in San Francisco tomorrow is organized around two major growth drivers of the global…