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The United States, South Korea, and Japan are enhancing their trilateral cooperation to secure natural gas supply chains in East Asia. Recent strategic agreements and natural gas developments highlight the partners’...

Following the signing of a “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty” between North Korea and Russia on June 19, 2024, ties between the two countries have only warmed as the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year. This...

The first year of the Trump administration in the United States and the first several months of the Lee administration in South Korea have brought significant changes to both domestic politics and foreign policy. As...

U.S.–South Korea relations have regained momentum after the election of President Lee Jae Myung in June, with the two sides signing a record trade deal in July and President Lee visiting Washington for a White House...

Audio issues resolve at 8:00 The Donald Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs has shaken the global trading order. At the same time, geopolitical rivalries among major powers are intensifying as Trump attempts to...

On August 18, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida convened at Camp David for the first standalone trilateral summit between the three...

On June 3, South Koreans elected Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung as the country’s next president. He was inaugurated amid deep domestic political polarization and uncertainty in external trade and security...

For decades, inter-Korean relations have oscillated between confrontation and cautious engagement, grounded in a shared yet contested aspiration of eventual peaceful unification. This aspiration, rooted in nationalist...

KEI Operations Manager Mai Pressley sits down with Areum Jeong, assistant professor of Korean Studies at Arizona State University, and Jeanie Chang, a licensed therapist and founder of “Noona’s Noonchi,” to discuss the...

KEI is pleased to host an exclusive event, “Beyond the Demographic Cliff: Economic Adaptation in Hyper-Aged Korea,” which examines how South Korea can redesign its economic structures to sustain prosperity and promote...

The past year has introduced both expanded opportunities and unprecedented volatilities to the U.S.-South Korea relationship. From nuclear submarine cooperation and a new investment agreement to tariff-related...

Voters will soon elect a new leader for South Korea, who will shape the country’s economy, domestic politics, and foreign policy for the next half-decade. This event will help attendees better understand the major fault...

KEI is pleased to hold a program on South Korea’s Geoeconomic Strategy: Industrial Policy in Comparative Context. Like other countries, South Korea faces an increasingly uncertain and fractious global political economy...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol currently faces both an impeachment trial and a criminal trial for his declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024, and related charges of seeking to undermine South Korea’s...

The multilateral free trade system is weakening, the United States is turning inward through discretionary tariffs and industrial policy, and major economies are racing toward security- and resilience-driven production...