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...

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...

South Korean Firms Are Powering U.S. Energy Storage

The rapid expansion of AI data centers and advanced manufacturing is driving up electricity consumption in the United States. Early this year, the U.S. Energy...

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...

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