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Trade or No Trade: China’s DPRK Dilemma
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“No Foreigners Allowed”: Discrimination Against Foreigners in South Korea
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Brain Drain in Putin’s Russia
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Saigon — The Broken Pearl that Mends
Nuclear weapons expert and founder of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), David Albright, recently published a damaging report about Shenyang Machine Tools Company. The large Chinese company, which builds military aircraft among other commercial products, allegedly supplied
A Building Emergency: How Climate Change is threatening our Fragile Food System
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Coal Ash: A Worrying Trend for the Future
Over the past century, coal has been critical to industrialization,
“No Foreigners Allowed”: Discrimination Against Foreigners in South Korea
In 2016, it was reported that a 24-year-old US citizen
Brain Drain in Putin’s Russia
In 2010, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to
Saigon — The Broken Pearl that Mends
Located in the south of Vietnam, Saigon today has the
It is easy to think in cliches, to resort to conventional wisdom. When academics, policy makers or military officials are asked to think about what ‘security’ means, the terms are often from traditional realist perspectives, involving state power, instruments of
The City Of Eternal Spring: Medellin, Colombia
Perfect weather, people dancing, and beautiful flowers everywhere - this
A Struggle Against Human Trafficking in the 21st century
When we hear the word “slavery”, we usually imagine the
Industrialization 4.0 — The emergence of the jobless class?
Adidas, the German sportswear and equipment giant, has announced it
Where it All Starts: Domestic Violence in Russia as a Symptom of a Political Crisis
With all the media noise surrounding Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy,
Gathering Smoke: Palm Oil’s Worrying Rise
For some in the West, climate change is still a
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Follow the Leader: How aides serve women politicians
It was 2:30 am on June 13th, 1972 when an
Too Much Politics: The South Korean presidential crisis
The South Korean National Assembly impeached President Park Geun-hye in
Bracing for the Storm: Can China’s urban areas adapt to climate change?
Over the past 30 years, China has undergone an immense
Failed Opportunity: How America’s flawed Russian policy aided the rise of Vladimir Putin
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian
MY CITY: YAROSLAVL: Florence of the Russian North
Art historians call Yaroslavl the, “Florence of the Russian North,”
In late August I woke up at 5am to go jogging before my bike ride through empty streets to the office. The sun had already painted one side of the horizon in pastel and the other side with burning orange.
A Rocky Identity: Power struggle for the seas and our identities
In recent years, tensions between Asian countries over hotly contested
Attack on Pearl Harbor: 75 Years of charting new waters
On December 7th, 1941, 353 Imperial Japanese planes appeared across
Facing Change: The Americanization of law
It was only a few years ago that Korean law
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” - (Hamlet, Act II, Scene II) It is all about interpretation, one thing can be good or bad or both, says Hamlet. In this act, this scene, this line,
Cadres and Trials – How top Chinese officials get purged
Friday the 13th of May 2016 was a bad day
FTAs in East Asia: Economic integration or spheres of influence?
In the past few years the rhetorical back and forth
Millenials and the Transformation of Jobs
The job landscape is always changing. That is why it
Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, is the coldest capital city in the world. It is home to around 1.3 million citizens, 45% of the whole country’s population. The population density in the city makes it curious for a country
Market Economy Status: Does China deserve it?
Fifteen years after its accession into the World Trade Organisation
Interview with Dr. Shin Bongkil
Before coming to Yonsei GSIS, Dr. Shin Bongkil enjoyed a
The United Nations at 70: A uniquely American project
The people of the United States of America are fond
What is ideology in North Korea? It is, as the author Hyung Gu Lynn wrote, a monumental illusion characterized by a great ideological and political utility and coherence. An illusion that it is as much metaphysical as it is real
Bitcoin in China: The RMB is no longer the yuan and only currency
What do the bailout of Cyprus and the Lushan earthquake
The Peaks and Troughs of the Mongolian Economy
Over the past decades, the Mongolian economy has been very
Europe’s Migrant Crisis – of the 5th Century
Rome was not built in a day, the saying goes.
Professor Jeong Yeon Lee has been with Yonsei GSIS since 2004, teaching a variety of economics-related courses at GSIS. He received his BA in Economics from Stony Brook University in New York, and his MA and PhD in Economics from
Multiculturalism in Modern Korea
In preparation for this year’s Chuseok, married migrant women in
The End of Pacifism? Or Japan as a “Normal” Country?
On August 30, 2015, tens of thousands of Japanese citizens,
The Good, The Bad, and The Refugees
No matter where you look, from shocking pictures and TV
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