Analysis and publications on economic policy, trade relations, business, financial issues, and commercial developments affecting U.S.-Korea relations.
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The runaway success of Kakao’s mobile messaging app can be easily seen by its near universal use in South Korea. From high school students to...
Although the Central Asia is not a major economic and diplomatic partner for South Korea, the countries of Central Asia have the potential to grow...
While millennials around the world have generally optimistic views of their future, Korean youth are more cynical.
Will last week’s action by the U.S. Treasury Department to designate North Korea as a primary money laundering concern join the list of failures of...
The welfare state is a concept of government in which the state or a well-established network of social institutions plays a key role in the...
This paper details the nature of transboundary air pollution in Northeast Asia, employing an analytical approach rooted in the political economy of the region. To...
September, 1961 was not a happy time in South Korea, and parallels to today's North Korea are uncanny.
Even a cursory glance at the South Korean education system reveals a fervent interest for English learning in both public and private spheres.
There are many arenas where the United States and South Korea work together outside of the military alliance. Here are five surprising places where these...
By Jenna Gibson Walking down one of Seoul’s many shopping streets, sandwiched between food carts and two-story portraits of the latest k-pop phenom, store clerks...
In anticipation of the disclosure of all 214,000 businesses in the Panama Papers next month, there are three ways this new information can help to...
KEI Communications Director Jenna Gibson, host of Korean Kontext, recently interviewed Dr. Stephen Haggard of the University of California-San Diego on the North Korean economy,...
On April 13, 2016, South Korea will hold elections for the 20th National Assembly.
Twenty five years ago today, South Korea established the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), officially cementing its unprecedented transition from aid recipient to donor.
In The Economist’s recent ranking of the best and worst places to be a working woman, South Korea did not fare well. In fact, it...