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Kyungjin Song
Dr. Kyungjin Song is The Asia Foundation’s country representative in South Korea. She has over twenty-five years of experience in the public and private sectors, international affairs, and media. She […]
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Building and Sharing Korean Electoral Democracy
The Asia Foundation is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2024. For seven decades, we have partnered with change-makers from government, civil society, the private sector, and academia to solve some of […]
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Korea
In Korea, we partner with government agencies, the private sector, and civil society in tackling key development challenges facing Asia and the Pacific, including inclusive growth, gender equality, and climate action.
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Country Representative, South Korea
The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives and expanding opportunities across Asia and the Pacific. Informed by 70 years of experience and deep local […]
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What a Clean Energy Future Demands: A Massive Shift in Critical Minerals and Global Supply Chains
Several areas of potential cooperation between the Republic of Korea (ROK), Australia, and the United States need timely attention. These include enhancing collaboration in the security, defense, and diplomatic domains […]
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Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship in Korea
The Asia Foundation’s office in Korea, with support from Fondation Chanel, undertook a program to equip women entrepreneurs with the skills and training they would need to enter the market […]
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The Asia Foundation Hosts Second Australia-Republic of Korea-United States Trilateral Dialogue
On June 7-8, in cooperation with the Perth USAsia Centre in Australia, The Asia Foundation organized a Republic of Korea – Australia – United States Trilateral Dialogue in Seoul that […]
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Kyung-Sook Lee
Kyung-Sook Lee is the director of programs, overseeing and managing the Foundation’s programs in the country, including accelerating women’s business, North Korean refugee entrepreneurship, Korean government-funded violence against women in […]
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Flawless: Lessons from the Capital of K-Beauty
Elise Hu spent four years as NPR’s first bureau chief in Seoul. She joins us to talk about her new book, a deeply reported and deeply reflective account of Korea’s world-challenging beauty industry.
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The Future Forecast: Asia in 2023
At the end of each year, we ask our experts across Asia to reveal what the New Year has in store. Here’s what they told us about 2023.
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The Best of InAsia, 2022
“Fast away the olde year passes.” It’s time to take an appreciative look back at the abundant harvest of stories and conversations from our colleagues in the field.
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The Rise of Environmental, Social, and Governance in South Korea: Greenwashing or Generational Opportunity?
South Korea is transitioning to the era of living with Covid under a new South Korean administration, with moderate growth expected in 2022 led by semiconductors exports. While some larger […]
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South Korea: The Paradox on the Han River
After beating a path to postwar prosperity that’s been the envy of Asia and the world, South Korea suddenly finds itself in a profound malaise, with plummeting birthrates and a generation of disaffected youth who call their country “hell.”
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Unlocking the Entrepreneurship of North Korean Refugees
After risking their lives to reach the South, many North Koreans are daunted by the hyper-competitive market environment. But help is at hand.
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Deepening Ties: Prospects for Trilateral Cooperation between the Republic of Korea, the United States, and Vietnam
Despite differences in political ideology, relations between South Korea, the United States, and Vietnam have deepened and evolved since formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam were established more than a quarter-century […]
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Virtual Event – Firm Partners In An Unstable Region: Prospects for Trilateral Cooperation between the Republic of Korea, the United States, and Australia
Trilateral Republic of Korea-Australia-United States cooperation is long overdue and as yet untapped. The reasons for this are complex, but with converging interests and the proven success of other […]
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Firm Partners In An Unstable Region: Prospects for Trilateral Cooperation between the Republic of Korea, the United States, and Australia
Trilateral Republic of Korea-Australia-United States cooperation is long overdue and as yet untapped. The reasons for this are complex, but with converging interests and the proven success of other regional […]
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Peering into the Year Ahead in Asia
The year is still young, but our country representatives are looking ahead to the trends and developments that will affect the course of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific in 2022.
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The Asia Foundation Hosts Australia-Republic of Korea-United States Trilateral Dialogue
The Asia Foundation held an Australia-Republic of Korea-United States Trilateral Dialogue from the 16th to the 17th of December. During this meeting, policymakers, scholars, and other experts discussed key political, […]
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The Asia Foundation Organizes Session on Regional Perspectives on the State of the Korean Peninsula
Despite many decades of efforts by Korea, the U.S., and other world leaders, the future of North Korea and its relationship with the rest of the world remains uncertain and […]
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Virtual Event – North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs in South Korea: Unveiling Korea’s Hidden Potential
4:00 PM Pacific Seventy-five years after the onset of Asia’s Cold War, the world remains focused on the geopolitics of inter-Korean relations. Meanwhile, an emerging community of more than 33,000 […]
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Virtual Event – Insights from North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs
Seventy-five years after the onset of Asia’s Cold War, the world remains focused on the geopolitics of inter-Korean relations. Meanwhile, an emerging community of more than 33,000 refugees from North […]
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Our Predictions for 2021, Following a Year That Defied Prediction
From a pandemic that quickly swept the globe, to the storming of the U.S. capital, 2020 was a year that defied prediction. So, what can we say about 2021? After a year that derailed development trajectories across Asia, our experts look to the year ahead.
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Eun-young Lim
Eun-young Lim manages and supervises finance, human resources, and administration for The Asia Foundation in Korea. She prepares and monitors the annual budget for the office, and oversees financial reports […]
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Eunhye Han
Eun-hye Han supports the country representative, including special initiatives for the Korea office. She also manages Foundation-wide exchange programs, including the Luce Scholars Program and Asia Foundation Development Fellows Program, […]
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Jaemyung Lee
Jaemyung Lee focuses on enterprise development for vulnerable groups, responsible business models, and partnerships with the private sector. Before joining The Asia Foundation, Lee participated in multiple projects related to […]
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Kyoungsun Lee
Kyoungsun Lee manages international relations and Asian development cooperation programs for the Foundation’s Korea office. She coordinates South-South Cooperation programs among emerging Asian donors and U.S.-Korea cooperation programs for peace […]
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North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs in South Korea: Unveiling Korea’s Hidden Potential
More than 33,000 refugees from North Korea today live in South Korea, and half of them aspire to become entrepreneurs. To date, there has been limited data and understanding regarding […]
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Virtual Event – Korea-ASEAN Partnership for Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia: Innovation for Gender Equality in Covid-19 Era
December 9, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM KST December 8, 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM PT The unprecedented onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has put women at a particular position […]
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AADC 2020 Spotlights Asia’s Changing Landscape of Development Cooperation Amidst and Beyond Covid-19
The Asia Foundation, together with KDI School of Public Policy and Management, hosted the Asian Approaches to Development Cooperation (AADC) webinar series on “Changing Landscape of Development Cooperation Amidst and […]
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Summit on Women’s Leadership in STEM: A Japan-Republic of Korea-U.S. Virtual Trilateral Event
Join us for the Summit on Women’s Leadership in STEM, a high-level virtual forum that brings together leaders from Japan, Republic of Korea, and the U.S. to share experiences, lessons […]
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The Asia Foundation Supports Women Entrepreneurs in Korea
On July 15, The Asia Foundation, with support from Fondation CHANEL, launched phase two of the Accelerate Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Opportunities in Korea program. The program aims to support […]
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Daehyeon Park
Originally from South Hwanghae in North Korea, Daehyeon Park is the founder and CEO of Woorion, an NGO and social network that connects North Korean refugees living in South Korea […]
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Insider Briefing: Country Report from South Korea
An overview of The Asia Foundation’s new programmatic priorities in South Korea and ways in which The Asia Foundation is advancing women’s entrepreneurship across Asia. Featuring Kwang Kim, Country Representative […]
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2020 in Asia: A 20/20 Look
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of InAsia for 2020. To herald the new decade, our country representatives this week survey the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for a dynamic and rapidly changing Asia. Here, to kick off the new year, are perspectives from The Asia Foundation’s 18 country offices.
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The Asia Foundation and KDI School Facilitate AADC Dialogue on Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Future of Work
On October 28-30, 2019, The Asia Foundation and the KDI School of Public Policy and Management hosted the Asian Approaches to Development Cooperation (AADC) dialogue and authors’ workshop on Industrial […]
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Accelerate Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Opportunities in Korea
With generous support from Fondation CHANEL, The Asia Foundation implemented a one-year research project, Accelerate Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Opportunities in South Korea, to better understand the challenges and opportunities […]
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Accelerating Women’s Entrepreneurship in South Korea
Women’s entrepreneurship represents a potent untapped resource for economic growth in Korea, which is struggling to reinvigorate its flagging economy. The Asia Foundation and Gyeonggido Family & Women’s Research Institute’s […]
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Will North Korea Denuclearize?
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm U.C. Berkeley Campus, Doe Library, Room 180 Han Sung-Joo, former Asia Foundation grantee, ambassador to the United States and Korean foreign minister will speak at […]
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National Security and Foreign Relations with North Korea: A South Korean Perspective
3:30pm – 6:00pm Morrison Library, Doe Library, 101 Library Ct, Berkeley, CA 94720. A bipartisan delegation of members of South Korea’s 20th National Assembly will visit UC Berkeley this summer […]
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Women in ICT: Entering a Forbidden Space
Traveling last year in Mongolia’s Arkhangai Province, I joined a party climbing the Shireet Ulaan Uul, a rocky, forested mountain that rises to 2,600 meters from the ridges west of […]
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2019 Asia Foundation Development Fellows Meet in Korea and Indonesia
The Asia Foundation welcomes the 2019 class of Asia Foundation Development Fellows coming together for the first time as a community of young changemakers for a Leadership Training Program in […]
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KOICA Presents The Asia Foundation with ‘Best Partnership’ Award
On December 28, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) presented the ‘Best Partnership’ award to The Asia Foundation for the Women’s Business Center and Incubator Project in Mongolia. KOICA President […]
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2019: The Year Ahead in Asia
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of InAsia for 2019. In our last issue we looked at some of our top stories from the year just ended, […]
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The Asia Foundation Supports and Participates in Advancing South-South Learning in Asia Conference
On July 4th, The Asia Foundation collaborated with the Asian Development Bank and Korea Development Institute to organize an international conference “Advancing South-South Learning in Asia.” The purpose of the […]
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Unlikely Counterparts: Lessons from Cambodia and South Korea on Women in the Workforce
At first glance, working women in Cambodia and Korea wouldn’t appear to have much in common: Korea is, after all, one of the world’s most educated nations, with women achieving […]
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Korea
The Asia Foundation works with Korea to promote international development cooperation in the AsiaPacific, peace on the Korean Peninsula, and strong Korea-U.S. relations. Since 1954, The Asia Foundation has supported […]
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A Partner for Change: Six Decades of The Asia Foundation in Korea
For more than six decades, The Asia Foundation has responded to the ever-changing needs of the Korean people by building relationships and addressing the critical issues facing the country with […]
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Korea’s ‘N-Po’ Generation Looks to New Administration for Jobs
Less than a month into his new presidency, South Korea’s new leader, Moon Jae-in, already faces a multitude of challenges, foremost of which are heightened tensions on the Peninsula over […]
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Korea Election: A Litmus Test of the System
On May 9, after more than six months of massive political demonstrations, public turmoil, and an impeachment, Koreans elected Democratic Party candidate Moon Jae-in as their new president. While the […]
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Photo Blog: Election Day in South Korea
On May 9, South Koreans voted in a snap presidential election, with Democratic Party leader Moon Jae-in emerging as the winner, in a victory that is said to be bolstered […]
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ASEAN Could Take Lead on Plastic Crisis in Asia
April 22 marks Earth Day around the globe. I was in 8th grade when Earth Day was first commemorated in 1970, and to mark the day, I participated in annual […]
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Snap Election in South Korea: What You Need to Know
On March 10, South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office after she was impeached over a massive corruption scandal. An election to choose her successor must be […]
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Q&A: Minister Han Sung-Joo on Korea’s Constitutional Crisis & President Trump
South Korea’s former Foreign Minister Han Sung-Joo, who was recently decorated by Japanese Emperor Akihito with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, the top civilian medal […]
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Korea Marks 20 Years as OECD Member: What do Next 20 Years Hold?
This month, Korea celebrates 20 years of membership in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the 35-member forum of mostly high-income countries that helps advance economic sustainability and […]
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Can A Constitutional Revision Fix South Korea’s Presidential Woes?
On October 24, South Korean President Park Geun-hye proposed a constitutional amendment to replace the current five-year, single-term presidency. Although 80 percent of the current Parliament Members agree on the […]
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Northeast Asia in Transformation: The Future of the Region and the Role of the United States
Northeast Asia is the economic and geopolitical region comprising China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and Russia’s far east, all of which stood at the forefront of the Cold […]
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Understanding Social Exclusion in Indonesia
This study analyses the reports that resulted from 68 Theory of Change workshops held with NGO and CSO partners as part of the Peduli program. This program addresses the social […]
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Violence Against Women in Korean Television Dramas
With the growing popularity of Korean dramas, a problem that is important to examine is the prevalence of violent acts that appear in recent dramas and that are often glamorized. […]
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Korean Journalist Selected for Harvard’s 2017 Nieman Fellowship
Today, The Asia Foundation announced that Kim Kyoungtae, editor and director of Election Broadcasting Planning at Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation in Seoul, has been selected by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism […]