The Korea Policy Forum is established to serve as a focal point and trusted venue for discussing current Korea-related policy issues in the domestic, regional and global contexts. The Forum engages policy experts, journalists, current and former government officials and lawmakers covering Korean domestic politics, economy, regional dynamics, and global agenda.
2024-2025
October 30, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
Changes in North Korea and the 8/15 Unification Doctrine with Secretary General of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, Tae Yong-ho
October 17, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
Changing Geopolitics in Northeast Asia and Inter-Korea Relations with Minister of Unification, Kim Yung Ho
August 29, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
Cyber Shadows: Understanding and Countering North Korea’s Illicit Digital Operations
2023-2024
April 17, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
Dynamics of the ROK-US Alliance: Bridging the Past, Present and Future
April 16, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
South Korea’s National Assembly Elections and US-ROK Relations: Journalists’ Views
March 7, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
The United States-South Korea Alliance: Why It May Fail and Why It Must Not
December 13, 2023
Korea Policy Forum
Linking the European and Asian Theaters?: Strategic Implications of New North Korea-Russia Relations
October 20, 2023
Korea Policy Forum
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Digital Human Rights in North Korea
September 13, 2023
Korea Policy Forum
Trilateral Strategic Cooperation Beyond the Security on the Korean Peninsula
2022-2023
May 2, 2023
Korea Policy Forum
Assessing the Biden-Yoon Summit: 70-Year Alliance and New Thinking
March 8, 2023
Korea Policy Forum
South Korea’s Nuclear Armament Debate
February 21, 2023
Korea Policy Forum
Realistic and Pragmatic Approach for Denuclearization and Peace on the Korean Peninsula
November 14, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
The Alliance at Seventy: Towards a Global Comprehensive Strategic Alliance in an Era of Uncertainty
October 28, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
ROK-China Relations: Challenges and Opportunities in the Next 30 Years
September 20, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
Global Semiconductor Supply Chain and US-ROK Cooperation
2021-2022
June 20, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
COVID Outbreak in North Korea: Political Economy of the Public Health Crisis
May 17, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
The First Biden-Yoon Summit: Conventional and Economic Security
March 22, 2022
Korea Policy Forum
The New Yoon Administration and US-ROK Relations: Journalists’ Views
December 14, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
South Korea’s Presidential Election & US-ROK Relations (Session 2)
December 7, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
South Korea’s Presidential Election & US-ROK Relations (Session 1)
November 18, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
“Hoping to Build Legal Stepping Stones over the River of Global Politics: Legislating the Relationship Between South and North Korea, a Road for Peace on the Korean Peninsula” with Justice Minister Park Beom Kye
September 29, 2021
Korea Policy Forum
U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and U.S.-ROK Cooperation After the Biden-Moon Summit
2020-2021
May 17, 2021
Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Asia in the Biden Era
May 14, 2021
Biden’s North Korea Policy and U.S.-ROK Relations
April 26, 2021
“U.S.-ROK Relations: Challenges and Opportunities under the Biden Administration”
April 15, 2021
“How Institutions Matter in Pandemic Responses: The South Korean Case”
March 23, 2021
“U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations in the Biden Era”
December 9, 2020
Virtual Roundtable Discussion “Prospects for U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and U.S.-ROK Relations under the Biden Administration”
December 7, 2020
“U.S.-ROK Cooperation Between the Indo-Pacific Strategy and the New South Policy”
November 10, 2020
“The U.S. Presidential Election and Korea: Journalists’ Views”
October 28, 2020
“U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations in the Post-Abe Era”
September 22, 2020
“U.S.-Korea Relations in the Era of U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry.”
Video – Part I of Sept 22 Event
September 3, 2020
“Security on the Korean Peninsula and the U.S.-ROK Relations”
June 29, 2020
“Post-Pandemic U.S.-South Korea Economic Cooperation”
2019-2020
April 23, 2020
“South Korea’s Response to the Corona Virus: Public Health, ICT, and Economic Measures”
April 20, 2020
“South Korea’s National Assembly Elections: Prospects of New Political Geography and Foreign Policy”
February 14, 2020
“Energy Cooperation between Korea and the U.S.”
January 29, 2020
“Korean Politics 2020 – Korean Security Issues and Challenges”
December 6, 2019
“The Crisis that Has Defied Five Presidents: Covering the North Korean Nuclear Program for Three Decades”
November 4, 2019
“Nuclear and Conventional Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula”
October 1, 2019
“U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and the Korean Peninsula”
September 20, 2019
“The Korean Democracy and the Party Politics”
This event was a closed-door round table discussion
September 12, 2019
Wendy Cutler: “Next Steps in the U.S.-Korea Economic Relations”
May 20, 2019
LEE Seong-hyon: “China’s Envisioning of North Korea’s Future, Inferred by the Summits between Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un”
May 6, 2019
Andray Abrahamian: “North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths”
April 4, 2019
“The Implications of Demographic Decline for South Korean National Security” with Troy Stangarone
March 20, 2019
“Japan-South Korea Relations in Crisis: Prospects for Reconciliation and Security Cooperation in East Asia” (co-sponsored by the GWIKS and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies)
