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Virtual Event - North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs in South Korea
Join The Asia Foundation and KDI School of Public Policy and Management (KDI School) for a launch event of our report on North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs in South Korea: Unveiling Korea’s Hidden Potential. 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 Korea currently live in South Korea; half aspire to become entrepreneurs. Despite the potential insight the refugee community could offer, there is insufficient data and limited understanding of their circumstances and specific needs. To fill this gap, The Asia Foundation produced North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs in South Korea: Unveiling Korea’s Hidden Potential, conducting a series of interviews and a landmark survey of 131 refugee entrepreneurs. The Asia Foundation is proud to host an in-depth discussion of this report with the KDI School. Experts will discuss insights on North Korean refugee e.. VIEW MORE
[Media Coverage] Asia Times / Korea trapped in shifting sands of US-China rivalry (2021. 4. 2.)
Ambassador Sungjoo Han, FOTAF Chairman of the Board Emeritus, is extensively quoted by the Asia Times that “the world may be entering a new era – that of ‘identity politics’” to explain today’s complex relationship between Korea, United States, China, and Japan. Please click the link to see his full interview in the news article. Title: Korea trapped in shifting sands of US-China rivalry Date: April 2, 2021 Link: Korea trapped in shifting sands of US-China rivalry - Asia Times
[Newsletter] Spring 2021
The Spring edition of The Asia Foundation Korea newsletter is here! Please see our latest news.
The Asia Foundation Predictions for 2021
The Asia Foundation’s 18 country representatives offer their predictions of the stories that will dominate the news from the Asia-Pacific in the coming year. In Korea, a highly unequal K-shaped recovery is occurring, with starkly opposite realities between North and South Korea at one level, and within South Korea at another. If the year just passed had a lesson, it must be the futility of predictions. What seasoned prognosticator in 2019 foresaw a viral pandemic that would derail the lives and prosperity of millions of people around the world in 2020? What seer saw in their crystal ball the dramatic and violent chaos that would unfold while members of the U.S. Congress met on Capitol Hill to certify the election of Joe Biden as the next president? The world expressed shock and dismay. These events were as unforeseen as they were momentous. Yet, to set goals, to devise strategies—to live our lives—we must look ahead, and after a year of events that changed development ..
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