Transformation to some market approaches in North Korea is of highest importance for more economic cooperation on the Korean peninsula. Kim Jong-uns's Byungjin policy, a new ideological approach announced in 2011, gave some hope for such reforms. At least, basic economic reforms like in China or...

While the DPRK (North Korea) is on its way ahead to reform the socialist based economic system, since a few years the Republic of Korea (South Korea) is integrating into East Asian economic structures like "ASEAN plus 3". In this way a possible reunification of Korea as well as a single...

Sonderwirtschaftszonen sind geographische Gebiete innerhalb eines Staates, in denen eine andere Wirtschafts- und Steuergesetzgebung gilt als im Rest desselben. Mit Sonderwirtschaftszonen wird i. d. R. die Steigerung von in- und ausländischen Inves-titionen bezweckt, weshalb ihre Errichtung als...