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Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy

Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy predates that of the U.S. In fact, Abe Shinzo gets credit for envisioning it as early as 2007, during his first brief tenure as prime minister. When…

November 2, 2023

2023 Report on American Attitudes Toward the Korean Peninsula

KEI’s 2023 Report on American Attitudes Toward the Korean Peninsula summarizes results from a survey commissioned by KEI and conducted by YouGov from August 22nd to August 29th, 2023. The…

September 28, 2023

Korea Policy Vol. 1

The Korea Economic Institute (KEI) is pleased to issue the inaugural volume of its new flagship journal, Korea Policy. Our new journal carries forward the objective and spirit of KEI’s…

Gilbert Rozman, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Andrei Lankov, Wonho Yeon, Jacques deLisle, Yeo Han-Koo

Korea Matters for America / America Matters for Korea

In partnership with the East-West Center and the CHEY Institute for Advanced Studies, KEI launched a new edition of Korea Matters for America / America Matters for Korea, a premier…

April 21, 2023

Podcasts

When North Korea Embraces Mobile Technology: Yonho Kim

We imagine North Korea as a country that is carrying on not only a conflict left over from the Cold War, but also a decrepit legacy economy from the past.…

March 29, 2019

Neighbors not by Geography, but by a Shared Vision: Park Jae-kyung

When people talk about South Korea’s foreign policy, they are more often than not focused on how Seoul engages with its immediate neighbors on denuclearization. However, as a global trading…

February 8, 2019

2018 in Review from the Korea Economic Institute

2018 has been an incredibly eventful year for both the Koreas and the U.S.-Korea relationship: from North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics at the start of the year to…

December 21, 2018

How Would New U.S. Auto Tariffs Impact Hyundai and Kia?

The Trump Administration is once again considering using Section 232 to impose tariffs on imported goods based on a threat to national security. The President originally used this provision to…

August 8, 2018

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By Phil Eskeland With Washington still abuzz from recent visits of Chinese President Xi Jinping, His Holiness the Pope, a few royals from Spain and Sweden, and the resignation of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, it is important for Washington to focus on the critical upcoming summit meeting between President Barack Obama…

October 7, 2015

Phil Eskeland

What Would a Fed Rate Rise Mean for South Korea?

By Kyle Ferrier Last Friday the Bank of Korea (BOK) Monetary Policy Board held interest rates at 1.5% to top off a busy month that saw a decline in exports and a fluctuating won. The BOK decision to uphold its benchmark interest rate – the seven day repurchase rate – at record low levels is…

September 16, 2015

Kyle Ferrier

Is China’s Slowdown Responsible for South Korea’s Drop in Exports?

By Troy Stangarone South Korea saw the largest drop in exports since the global recession in 2009 in August with exports falling 14.7 percent year-on-year. One sited cause of the decline is slowing economic growth in China, which now accounts for about 25 percent of South Korea’s exports. With China now South Korea’s most significant…

September 15, 2015

Troy Stangarone

Building a U.S.-Korea-India Trilateral Dialogue

By Linda Butcher How can we move forward with a Korea-India-U.S. trilateral dialogue? Yesterday, the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) held a program with top experts to discuss just that. Ambassador Kathleen Stephens who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in India, is optimistic, stating that the…