INDUSTRY
What makes a country innovative? One of the many ways to delve into this question is via the Global Innovation Index (GII) report, which I…
ANALYSIS
- by Soumitra Dutta, Cornell University
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
On February 9, 2018, the Winter Olympic Games will officially begin in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang. But Olympics-induced games of a diplomatic sort…
ANALYSIS
- by Guoqi Xu, The University of Hong Kong
INCLUSIVENESS
Earlier this year, Mitsutoki Shigeta, a 28-year-old unmarried, wealthy Japanese man, gained custody of his 13 surrogate children in Thailand, having gained custody of three…
ANALYSIS
- by Izumi Nakayama, The University of Hong Kong
DEMOCRACY
South Korea was recently shaken by a series of corruption scandals that led to the impeachment and imprisonment of former President Park Geun-hye. Several chaebol,…
ANALYSIS
- by Juliette Schwak, Tokyo International University
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
U.S. President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the end of February ended early...
ANALYSIS
- by Markus Bell and Marco Milani, University of Sheffield
SECURITY
The late Anglo-American essayist and poet T. S. Eliot once said, “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will…
ANALYSIS
- by Graham Ong-Webb, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
DIPLOMACY
Ever since people inhabited the the Korean peninsula and the Japanese islands three millennia ago, Koreans and the people of Japan have had relations. The…
ANALYSIS
- by In-bum Chun, Republic of Korea Army (retired)
DIPLOMACY
The ongoing dispute between Japan and Korea has caused uncertainties beyond trade. Seoul unilaterally abandoned the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) – its…
ANALYSIS
- by Yoshikazu Kato, Asia Global Institute
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