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Blinken and Austin's visit to Seoul

The purpose of the visit to South Korea by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to hold the so-called “2 + 2 meeting” is not North Korea. The purpose of their visit is China. Appreciating the difference matters, because South Koreans tend to have high hopes of a “breakthrough” in the North Korean nuclear crisis whenever high-level U.S. ...

2021-03-16 16:44

Regulation: Korea's next innovation challenge

Korea has rapidly progressed when it comes to innovation. In the World Intellectual Property Organization's 2020 Global Innovation Index, Korea broke into the top 10 for the first time, ranking first in research and development (R&D) and second for human capital and information and communications technology (ICT).

2021-03-15 16:56

Moon and his neighbors

Literally, for centuries, Korea has been geographically and geopolitically stuck between implacable nation-states: adversarial and powerful. Whether it be the Mongolians, the Chinese, the Japanese or more recently North Korea, Korean society has endured being rolled over by wars and the rumor of wars for most of its existence.

2021-03-15 16:52

Korea-Japan relationship: a case for de-politicization of diplomacy

Among all sets of bilateral relationships between the countries in Northeast Asia, the Republic of Korea (ROK)-Japan relationship is by any account the most grossly underperforming. The gap between its potential and the reality is huge. Unfortunately, the gap is growing due to the failure of the political leadership to look forward and lead the public toward the future. This ...

2021-03-14 17:02

Korean won likely to stay strong

The Korean won has depreciated about 4.9 percent against the U.S. dollar so far this year. The drop has been faster than expected, but despite this weakness, we remain bullish on the won in the long run, as we believe fundamentals favor the currency.

2021-03-14 17:01

Playing games with war games

South Korea is putting out one the crazier pleas in the history of warfare. They're saying to the North Koreans, in effect, please don't mind if we play war games with your enemy the Americans, no hard feelings, doesn't mean a thing, they're making us do it.

2021-03-11 16:20

Korea should phase out internal combustion engine

In October last year, President Moon Jae-in pledged that Korea would become carbon neutral by 2050. The question is how to achieve that goal. Over his time in office, the Moon administration has taken a series of initiatives to change Korea's energy mix and reduce emissions.

2021-03-11 16:15

Diplomacy and deterrence

In a 24-page document on Interim National Security Strategic Guidance released March 3, President Joe Biden instructed his security team still developing a new strategy toward North Korea to employ “diplomacy as our tool of first resort.”

2021-03-11 16:13

WTO leadership race

Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic, there was another event in 2020 that Korea should not miss taking stock of, registering the results in our collective memory in order to strive for more refined diplomacy. It was Korea's decision to enter into the race for the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO). There are four criteria that provide useful guidelines for th...

2021-03-09 16:51

Moon's last year

It will be nearly a year from now when Korea holds its next presidential election on March 9, 2022. The last year in office usually proves to be a dismal one for Korean presidents due to their lame-duck status.

2021-03-08 17:00

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