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It’s All in the Golf Cart:President of the Republic of Korea, Lee Myung-bak, Visits the United States

KEI Co-hosts a Breakfast with Lee Myung-bak

Reform Locally, Act Globally? Crisis Management Trends in Korea

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Strategic Abandonment: Alliance Relations in Northeast Asia in the Post-Iraq Era

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Filmmaking “Guests" of the Dear Leader and North Korea’s Cultural Crisis

by Kim Suk-young
The bizarre story of the abduction of a South Korean film-making couple, Shin Sang-Ok and Choi Eun-Hee, by Kim Jong-il has often served as a popular entry point for exploring the psychotic nature of the “Dear Leader.” Nonetheless, the fact that the North Korean leader chose South Korean filmmakers, citizens of the sworn enemy state, to bail the local film industry he had fostered out of the cultural dead end it found itself in provides us with the opportunity to delve deeper into more complex issues surrounding North Korean society and culture. Suk-young Kim’s paper looks at the story of the film couple as a way of exploring the complex matrix of ironies and contradictions in North Korean society.

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2008 U.S.-Korea Joint Academic Studies

The March 2008 release of Towards Sustainable Economic & Security Relations in East Asia: U.S. and ROK Policy Options is now available online. To view all KEI publications, please visit our publications page where you can search by author, date, title, and keywords.

 

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What's Happening in Korea

Click here to access the latest edition of KEI Insight as well as prior months' editions. KEI insight is a monthly newsletter released at the beginning of each month that covers a broad range of topics related to U.S-Korea relations and the Korean Peninsula.

 

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KORUS FTA RESOURCE CENTER

Click here to access more information related to the KORUS FTA, including academic studies of the agreement, statements by government officials, industry press releases, and topical news stories related to the FTA.
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