Tag: South Korea

S Korea’s ex-president Park freed after nearly 5 years in prison (Al Jazeera)

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was released from prison on Friday nearly five years after being convicted of corruption, fuelling debate over whether...

The future of South Korea’s defence transition (Jina Kim, East Asia Forum)

In South Korea, presidential election fever is heating up. Key candidates from the conservative People Power Party and the liberal Democratic Party of Korea...

South Korea’s developmentalist response to COVID-19 (David Hundt, East Asia Forum)

For South Korea, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has been an opportunity to burnish its ‘national brand’. It has experienced relatively few daily infections, cumulative deaths...

Putting South Korea’s proactive national defence strategy in perspective (Bo Ram Kwon, East Asia Forum)

South Korea is under the spotlight for unusual reasons. On 15 September 2021, North Korea tested a new long-range cruise missile and a submarine-launched ballistic missile....

The Sixth U.S.-ROK Senior Economic Dialogue (US Department of State)

On December 17, 2021, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez and the ROK Vice Minister...

South Korea’s and Australia’s shared future is about a lot more than armoured vehicles (Michael Shoebridge, The Strategist)

South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s fourth meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, held in Canberra today, built more momentum in the quiet achiever of...

The Korean way (East Asia Forum)

Aspirations for greater autonomy and self-reliance are driving significant changes to Seoul’s political and security postures amid intensifying regional tensions, and serve as a...

Tough tests for South Korea’s next president (Hyung-A Kim, East Asia Forum)

With less than four months to South Korea’s presidential election on 9 March 2022, the contest is turning into a quasi-life-or-death round of Squid...

Washington cannot force Japan and South Korea together (Anthony V Rinna, East Asia Forum)

Seoul–Tokyo relations under Japan’s new prime minister Fumio Kishida are off to a less-than-promising start. This is no doubt frustrating for the United States, eager...

With China and U.S. talks, South Korea tries to push forward on N.Korea (Phil Stewart, Reuters)

South Korea will broach North Korea separately with two different audiences on Thursday, holding talks with Beijing's top diplomat in China and with visiting...

US, S. Korea to Write New War Plan to Counter N. Korean Nukes, Missiles (Tara Copp, Defense One)

The U.S. and the Republic of Korea are expected to announce this week they will begin writing a new war plan for North Korea...

Joint Statement on the Sixth U.S.-Republic of Korea Information and Communication Technology Policy Forum (US Department of State)

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Korea at the...

South Korea accused of discrimination over vaccine recognition (Morten Soendergaard Larsen, Al Jazeera)

Imagine two people. Both live in South Korea. Both got their COVID-19 vaccinations in July when they were overseas – one in the United States,...

S.Korea weighs monetary fines to rein in app store operators (Reuters)

South Korea said on Wednesday it plans to impose a fine on dominant app store operators such as Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google if they force...

Altay power pack talks between Turkey, SKorea changes to off-the-shelf supply (Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News)

Negotiations between Turkish and South Korean companies to power Turkey’s first indigenous tank are shifting from plans for co-production in the European country to an off-the-shelf...

South Korea’s deepening social fractures amid COVID-19 success (Yoo-jung Lee, Yves Tiberghien, East Asia Forum)

South Korea was well prepared and acted rapidly at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020. It pioneered new methods of aggressive COVID-19 containment...