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May 7, 2025 Country Reports · South Korea
Country Report: South Korea (April 2025)

On April 3, South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk-yeol over his illegal declaration of martial law. His removal from office has ushered […]

Suhyeon Kim

impeachment, Lee Jae-myung, NPT, US tariffs, Yoon Suk-yeol
March 15, 2025 Country Reports · South Korea
Country Report: South Korea (February 2025)

In just a few months since early 2025, US President Donald Trump’s impact on South Korea’s policy direction has been profound. On North Korea, Trump’s North Korea policy […]

Suhyeon Kim

Donald Trump, impeachment, tariffs, trade war, trilateralism
July 26, 2022 Special Forum
Introduction

The four years from 2016 through 2019 were the most eventful in the post-democratization and post-Cold War period of South Korean history. Three goals had defined the entirety […]

Editorial Staff

impeachment, Moon Jae-in, nuclear diplomacy, Park Geun-hye, Trustpolitik
March 23, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2017)

In the first months of 2017, the cloud of impeachment hung heavily over South Korea’s foreign policy, while China’s anger at the THAAD deployment kept growing, and signs […]

Editorial Staff

Arms Race, ASEAN, comfort women, Eurasia Initiative, impeachment, India, Kaesong Industrial Complex, Kim Jong-nam, missile tests, NAPCI, Park Geun-hye, ROK-US Alliance, strategic patience, THAAD, Trump, Trustpolitik, US-Japan alliance, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
February 24, 2017 Open Forum
The Limitations of “Global Korea’s” Middle Power

2010 was a pivotal year for the Republic of Korea: as host of the G20 Leaders’ Summit—the first non-G7 and non-Western country to do so—the relatively small country […]

Balbina Y. Hwang

anti-globalization, BRICS, Cold War, G20, G7, impeachment, liberalism internationalism, middle power, Middle Power Diplomacy, MIKTA, NAPCI, nationalism, Nuclear Security Summit 2012, ODA, OECD, Park Geun-hye, peace-keeping operations, Populism, proliferation security initiative, ROK-US Alliance, Seoul G20 Summit, spheres of influence, trade liberalization, Trump
February 22, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Two months following the passage by the ROK National Assembly of a motion of impeachment against Park Geun-hye, power remains in the hands of Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn, […]

Scott Snyder

Abe Shinzo, anti-globalization, Ban Ki-moon, comfort women, Constitutional Court, Hwang Kyo-ahn, impeachment, missile tests, nationalism, Park Geun-hye, THAAD, Trump, Yasukuni Shrine
February 22, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

The Constitutional Court of South Korea has until June to rule for or against the impeachment decision made by the National Assembly last December. As a majority of […]

Kim Jaechun*

4th nuclear test, Abe Shinzo, Ban Ki-moon, burden-sharing, comfort women, Constitutional Court, Dokdo, elections, GSOMIA, impeachment, Kaesong Industrial Complex, Kim Jong-nam, missile tests, Park Geun-hye, ROK-US Alliance, sanctions, THAAD, Trump
December 29, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I

Being chief diplomat is one of the many roles that the president plays under the Korean political system. The chief diplomat has been missing in Korea for months […]

Kim Jaechun*

4th nuclear test, comfort women, GSOMIA, Hwang Kyo-ahn, impeachment, Park Geun-hye, ROK National Assembly, summit diplomacy, THAAD, Trump administration, Xi Jinping
December 29, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I

On December 9, the South Korean National Assembly passed a motion of impeachment against Park Geun-hye. The ROK Constitutional Court has up to 180 days from that date […]

Scott Snyder

burden-sharing, comfort women, GSOMIA, Hanjin, Hwang Kyo-ahn, impeachment, Park Geun-hye, ROK National Assembly, Samsung, THAAD, Trump administration