"A textbook which explains the evolution of international political economy in East Asia. Examining the development of Free Trade policy in Japan and South Korea since the late 1990s, Choi and Oh analyse the role of political, institutional, sectoral, and civil society factors in placing the two...

In the past decade, Korea and Japan have increasingly exhibited different strategic priorities in trade in face of China’s rising global economic prowess and worsening US-China trade conflict. Japan’s trade policy decisions have worked to reinforce its economic and security ties with the US...

From the first restructuring initiative in 1990 to the latest in 1995, more and more of the Korean telecommunications market has been exposed to competitive market forces. Nonetheless, it is an unfinished agenda. The introduction of competition in the telecommunications market has mainly been...