Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Perspectives -- Introduction -- Geopolitical economy -- FTAS, statistics, and Korea -- Containment and South Korean development -- The Korean FTA strategy -- FTAs as development strategy -- FTA consequences -- The geopolitics of FTAs -- South Korea...

Welfare spending continues to garner a bigger chunk of the national budget in Korea. This has become a key economic issue attracting much public attention. Fiscal conservatives call for tighter controls on welfare spending, while some are calling for greater welfare spending in order to temper...

The research focus on the analysis of interdependence of economic and ICT development results from the fact that, in recent decades, ICTs have become a dominant factor in generating socio-economic prosperity of countries. ICT expansion is a stimulus for economic growth, and vice versa. In order...