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...

Maximizing South Korea’s AI Momentum

There is a tendency to view the world through the status quo. If the economy is growing, the set expectation becomes that it will continue...

The Narrow Path for South Korean Nuclear Power in Vietnam

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung used his state visit to Hanoi last month to pitch a Korean-built reactor in southern Vietnam. Standing alongside Vietnamese...

How South Korea Is Weathering the Iran War Oil Shock

The 2026 Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have upended global trade and energy access, prompting governments in Asia and around...

Energy Shock and Economic Resilience: South Korea and the Iran War

The 2026 Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have upended global trade and energy access, prompting governments in Asia and around...

The Iran War and Korea’s Energy Impact

The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has severely disrupted global energy access. Northeast Asian countries, including South Korea, rely on maritime imports of crude...

Redefining the U.S.-South Korea Partnership on Nuclear Technologies and Cybersecurity

The November 2025 U.S.-South Korea Joint Fact Sheet opened the door to renewed discussions on South Korea’s civil uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing and...

South Korea’s Efforts to Adapt to the Impact of Climate Change

South Korea's climate targets are ambitious, as Korea was the world’s thirteenth-largest GHG emitter in 2023.

Cooperation on Semiconductor Supply Chains and Technology

Canvasing Variations in US-South Korea Cooperation on AI and Quantum Technology

Clean Energy Pragmatism as a Spark for US-South Korea Relations

US-South Korea Relations in Space: A New Era for Partnership

Domestic Reevaluation is Needed Before Revitalizing Korea-Vietnam Smart City Cooperation

South Korea’s smart city approach calls for heightened governmental efforts to monitor public-private cooperation between the two countries.

SK Hynix’s 10nm DRAM and the Expanding Power of Compute

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix succeeded in developing a 10-nanometer transistor process for 16 GB Double Data Rate 5 dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, representing...

SK Hynix’s Latest CHIPS Act Funding Helps Land HBM Chips in the United States

The United States is working with its allies to develop robust supply chains for the production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips.