korean unification studies

I guess this is one reason why South Korea is so eager to ensure that inter-Korean economic projects proceed - North Korea is well on the way to becoming a Chinese province.
A North Korean investment group and a Chinese bank will set up a 10 billion dollar fund to help Chinese firms build infrastructure…The deal […]

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Apparently, during the South-North Korea Summit, North Korea was displeased with South Korea’s use of the terms ‘reform’ and ‘openness’ in connection to the Gaeseong Industrial Complex (GIC).
As a result of this the Ministry of Unification, and a host of other ROKG agencies have removed these terms from policy documents, official speeches, websites, and announcements regarding the GIC.
Roh […]

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The possibility of the two Koreas undertaking joint oil exploration projects in North Korea adds another reason as to why surrounding states view Korean unification as problematic. The arithmetic is simple. A Korea divided, is easy to control - a Korea united is that much more difficult.
Negotiating with South and North Korea, despite the latter’s often hyperbolic description as […]

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The Ministry of Unification has an interesting article written Gwon Yong-Jin,  an employee of Korea Land Corporation, who works and lives at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex(GIC). Gwon presents an account of the diverse aspects of life at the complex and how his attitudes have come to change during his one year stay:
I have lived in Gaeseong for more than one […]

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There is a very good article at korea.net on economic cooperation and its role in the unification of the two Koreas. Nicole Bastian, a correspondent for the Düsseldorf based Handelsblatt financial newspaper, has written an article that is both realistic and inspiring. The article, entitled ‘Closing economic gap between the Koreas is a good idea’, supports the […]

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Is the driving force behind contemporary South Korean visions of unification really just ‘cheap labor’? The Christian Science Monitor asks this question in a recent article by our good friend Hans Schattle. Check it out!

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A new working paper by Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard at the Peterson Institute  for International Economics provides a good account of inter-Korean economic cooperation. A key finding of the paper is that while interdependence with China and South Korea is growing, its nature is very different. China’s interaction with the North is increasingly on […]

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