The South Korea that Biden encounters

The South Korea that Biden encounters

12 November 2020 | KF-VUB KOREA CHAIR POLICY BRIEFDr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo President Moon Jae-in has welcomed incoming president Joe Biden by reiterating the value of the ROK-US alliance. What kind of South Korea will Biden be facing? For many years, South Korea has...
The Koreas and the US presidential election

The Koreas and the US presidential election

9 November 2020 | KOREA CHAIR EXPLAINSDr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo At the time of writing, US voters seem to have spoken and Joe Biden will emerge as the winner of the 2020 US presidential election. Most reliable media have declared Biden the winner of the election based...
The Koreas and the US presidential election

Japan’s New Leader and Korean Peninsula-Japan relations

14 September 2020 | KOREA CHAIR EXPLAINSDr. Tongfi Kim On 14 September, Suga Yoshihide, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, was elected as the new president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), to serve the remainder of Abe Shinzo’s term through September 2021....