Korea’s industrial robot sector is now the world’s fifth-largest, aided by systematic and consistentgovernment policy over the past decade. It is still heavily reliant on imports for key parts however,and the industry is fragmented, consisting of many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in...

Product recall known as a kind of a product-harm crisis must be a tragic situation for a company recalling defected products because the company not only loses sales revenue, market share and investments but also suffer from the devaluation of their brand reputation and their investments in...

This study takes a comprehensive look at the overall flexibility of regulatory governance in Korea, including the design, implementation, and monitoring of the many issues surrounding regulatory reform that stand in the way of innovation growth. Based on the findings of the analysis, the paper...

Korea’s Green New Deal and plans for developing offshore wind power have brought greater attention to offshore wind power. To overcome Korea’s limitations in terms of land area and natural resources, the country’s position as a peninsula must be fully utilized. Toward this end, it is...

As of May 2021, Korea’s exports recorded a 23.4 percent year over year increase.This upturn is considered to be the result of the recovery and rebound from the COVID-19-induced recession. Factors that have contributed to this upturn include the activity in the so-called “untact”...

With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating digital transformation, demand for 5G networks is soaring. 5G networks are an indispensable part of infrastructure supporting immersive content, self-driving technologies, the Internet of Things (IOT), remote services, and smart manufacturing....

Digital transformation exerts diverse impacts on the value chains of existing industries. Specific impacts depend on how given technologies are used. Along with the attributes of the respective industries to which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) belong, the effects of digital...

The purpose of this report is twofold. First, to describe the digitalization of modern manufacturing and U.S. businesses' adoption of digital technologies and identify the implications for policy carried by these trends. And second, to provide recommendations for competition policy in Korea...

In modern societies, employment has not only economic functions, such as income creation, but also social functions, such as alleviating inequality or enhancing social stability (high unemployment threatens social stability). Since utilities stemming from the social functions of employment...

Jobless growth in the South Korean manufacturing industry has been observed since 2015. Even as total value added in the manufacturing sector is continuously growing, manufacturing employment levels are decreasing; this pattern first emerged in the 1990s, lasting for a decade. The decoupling of...