Korean Abstract: 한·미 FTA 협상이 타결된 2007년, 우리나라는 중소기업의 FTA 활용을 지원하기 위한 프로그램을 시작했고, 이후 관련 법과 규정을 통해 다른 국가에서는 찾아볼 수 없는 정도로 체계적인 FTA 활용 지원체계를...

An analysis of the feasibilities of East Asian economic integration, providing diverse positions on East Asian economic integration by ASEAN countries as well as the north-eastern countries of China, Japan, and Korea.

This paper gives an overview of the progress of regionalism in East Asia and examines the background of the recent embrace of trade agreements by China, Japan, and South Korea. It discusses the progress toward free trade agreements (FTAs) within East Asia and offers reasons for their slow...

The Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) continues to promote an open-trade system via the conclusion of free trade agreements (FTAs), arguing that Korean enterprises will obtain considerable business opportunities under the FTAs the government has implemented. However, the FTAs that are...

Over the past decade, globalisation has been a pervasive trend in almost all economies. The world economy is becoming increasingly interdependent, deepening and intensifying international linkages, most notably in trade. As trade expands among nations throughout the world, integration of the...

This paper explores the effects of the proposed free trade agreement between Japan and Korea. Our experiments are based on a new dynamic simulation model, called the Asia-Pacific G-cubed Model, which incorporates the rational expectations and intertemporal optimizing behaviour of agents. The...