Korean defense exports have grown at a higher rate than anywhere else in the world in the five year period from 2017 to 2021, exploding by 177 percent and positioning Korea as the world’s eighth-largest defense exporter. Moreover, if after final accounting Korean defense exports came to more...

Though economic relations between India and Korea have been strengthening, the current size of trade and investment between the two countries is relatively low compared to the size and structural complementarities of the two economies. In this context, the present paper analyses trade and...

The Korean wave has become a global phenomenon whose effect has been widely studied in Asia, Europe and the US. However the presumption of cultural distance makes it appear unlikely that the Korean wave could gain traction among African consumers of cultural products. As such, a dearth of...

In this paper, an international comparison of the military welfare service in the U.S., U.K. and Germany is made, with a particular focus on vocational education, dwelling for military personnel, and military medical service. The findings from the international comparison of these three...

In this paper, an international comparison of women's participation in the military service in the U.S. and Korea is made. In the U.S., the role of the modern warrior becomes more gender neutral than at any time in the past. In fact, a more relevant and interesting question may be how and where...

This study examines the current status of North Korea's IT industry and the structural problems embedded in its IT sector. Although North Korea's IT industry, in general, is still in the infancy stage, North Korea has made considerable progress in the IT industry since the late 1990's. North...

This study aims to predict the possible changes in the North Korean economic system by examining 27 countries that have experienced economic transition since 1990. This study divides the 27 transition countries into three groups (i.e., outstanding, fine, and poor transition) through discriminant...

This paper series takes a look at several aspects of inner-Korean relations, primarily in the area of international relations and economic cooperation, from a German viewpoint. In fact, the complexity of the respective subjects touched in this frame would require a deeper and more comprehensive...

This paper examines the questions of why and how foreign assistance was utilized successfully in South Korea but less so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared...