Though it is neither desirable nor likely that an emergency will materialize in North Korea in the near future, it is necessary to be prepared for such an abrupt incidence. This paper examines necessary measures to take in the case of a North Korean collapse. The policy goal of a potential...

A series of tit-for-tat events — from North Korea’s missile launch on April 13, 2012 and its third nuclear weapons test on February 12, 2013 to the UN Security Council Resolutions 2087 and 2094 — has only escalated the North Korean nuclear crisis to its new height. It is highly...

In this paper, we examine the impact of the labor regulation on firm's employment. South Korea's labor reform in 2007 restricted the duration of the specific types of temporary contract — fixed term and dispatched contract — to maximum two years and required those temporary contracts to be...