Nov 12, 2020 | Publications
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...
Nov 9, 2020 | Publications
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...
Oct 22, 2020 | Publications
22 October 2020 | KF-VUB KOREA CHAIR POLICY BRIEFLinde Desmaele If South Korea could cast a vote in the US presidential election, who would it support? From President Moon Jae-in’s perspective, three issues promise to be particularly relevant for the US-ROK...
Oct 14, 2020 | Publications
14 October 2020 | REPORT Contributors: Sung Kyoo Ahn, Maximilian Ernst, Tongfi Kim, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Riccardo Villa This report sets out to analyse South Korea’s positioning in non-traditional security. Since the end of the Cold War, non-traditional threats have...
Sep 22, 2020 | Publications
22 September 2020 | KF-VUB KOREA CHAIR POLICY BRIEFPaula Cantero Dieguez The US campaign against Huawei has brought to the fore questions about secure 5G equipment procurement, at the time when intensive 5G network deployment is planned across Europe. The EU has...
Sep 14, 2020 | Publications
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....