Analysis and publications on economic policy, trade relations, business, financial issues, and commercial developments affecting U.S.-Korea relations.
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As the rest of the world gets accustomed to seeing Kim Jong-un walk with a cane, we might do well to figure out what, if...
From the Hack North Korea contest to smuggling in USBs and launching balloons over the DMZ, there have been many ways people have tried to...
Korea has begun to play greater role internationally as a rising middle power across a range of issues, including climate change.
The major international structural changes over the last 25 years—the end of the Cold War and rapid ascent of China—have direct impact on India’s national...
America’s economic engagement in the Asia-Pacific predates the republic itself. In February 1784, the merchant ship Empress of China set sail from New York to...
The re-election of Abe Shinzo as prime minister has led to a drastic change in the economic landscape of Japan through the implementation of “Abenomics.”...
The debate on TPP versus RCEP has been widely recognized as a struggle between the United States and China for expanding their influence in the...
For many years, the major trading countries coexisted comfortably under a multilateral trading system. Major trade liberalizations were agreed upon multilaterally. In most cases, trade...
This paper examines the evolution of income inequality in South Korea over the period 1965 to 2011 using a fairly new dataset, namely the Standardized...
The Korean economy has fared well despite the recent global market turmoil and is well positioned to benefit from the global recovery given its strong...
The health and strength of Korea’s manufacturing-intensive, export-led economy remains almost entirely dependent on access to energy imports; in particular, oil from the Middle East....
Over the past twenty years, economic relations between ASEAN and Korea have evolved quite rapidly. As a result, ASEAN has now become the second largest...