Bipartisan Consensus on Economic Priorities
President Yoon Suk Yeol's national vision echoes the priorities of previous administrations, particularly around the need to boost small businesses.
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President Yoon Suk Yeol's national vision echoes the priorities of previous administrations, particularly around the need to boost small businesses.
South Korea looks to increase wheat output as grain prices rise in response to supply chain challenges created by the pandemic and geopolitical instability.
Businesses are investing in nations rich in cobalt, nickel, and lithium, minerals essential to the global renewable energy transition.
Although small and medium enterprises (SMEs) welcomed the government’s decision to lift COVID-related restrictions, it comes after years of strained ties.
The widely publicized shortage of semiconductors from the pandemic faces new challenges from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
External threats of disruptions to the world economy due to the war in Ukraine are perhaps the biggest risk to the Korean economy.
Will the food price shock unleashed by the war in Ukraine find its way into the North Korean economy?
South Korean policymakers have long promoted green technology not only for carbon neutrality but also for its capacity to create jobs.
To understand the context behind the Korean Air-Asiana Airlines merger, one must understand the unique historical momentum driving it.
Labor market dualism – the segmentation between regular and non-regular workers -- is deeply entrenched in Korea’s labor market.
Election pledges provide an initial overview of how Moon Jae-in’s New Southern Policy may or may not continue under the next administration.
With Russian troops poised to potentially invade the Ukraine, does South Korea have a stake in the outcome? There is one suprisingly important connection.
One of the most prominent policy and social problems plaguing the Republic of Korea today is a declining birth rate.