South Korea’s response to North Korea’s balloons of trash is representative of the creative stagnation in foreign policy thinking.
Constitutional reform to change the current single five-year term to two consecutive five-year or four-year terms is a recurrent debate in South Korea. Yoon’s desire to leave a legacy raises hopes that constitutional reform will soon attract greater attention.
A Russian delegation, led by Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Moscow's Security Council, visited North Korea 13-14 September. South Korea continues to withhold lethal military aid to Kyiv despite increased cooperation between Russia and North Korea.
Dissatisfaction with Yoon's unilateral leadership style, economic challenges, and diplomatic performance has led to a sharp decline in popularity.
An investigation has revealed that thousands of South Korean mothers were coerced into giving up their babies for international adoption during the 1960s-1980s.
There are events in life wholly unbelievable. Events we look back on and imagine everything would be so different, if only there were five words, four meters, three cars, or two seconds separating one action from another.
Here are just a few points to bring up the next time someone says you don’t speak Korean well enough, or you didn’t study enough international relations
The Bank of Korea (BoK) remains cautious about gold purchases, prioritizing dollar reserves, while domestic demand for gold surges through retail sales.
Think-tanks know how to influence U.S. policy but to be more useful, they need to diversify their perspectives, challenge the status quo, and start thinking creatively about the Korean Peninsula.
Most don’t know they’re engaged in espionage until it’s too late and the better the recruitment process, the less likely that the agent is even aware they are being recruited.