South Korea and the Nuclear Umbrella: Extended Detterence and Nuclear Weapons

Dr. Terence Roehrig, Professor of National Security Affairs, the Director of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group US Naval War College gave a special lecture at GSIS on May 13, 2015. Professor Roehrig talked about the US Nuclear Umbrella and South Korea, elaborating on the extended deterrence and use of the Nuclear Weapons. Roehrig started by affirming the strong alliance between the US and the Republic of Korea adding the strong credibility of the defense commitment of the US. Yet, he doubted the likelihood of the US actually using nuclear weapons against North Korea, though not disregarding the possibility altogether. The importance of dialogue with North Korea was also emphasized along these lines.  

2015-05-13

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New Trade Policy and Road Map of the Government

  On May 7, 2015, Mr. Kim, Hakdo, Executive  at the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy of Korea, gave a presentation on the “New Trade Policy Road Map of the Government.” Mr. Kim first provided a short history of Korean trade policy directives up to the current era, and explained how the current trade environment is changing through ongoing plurilateral mega-FTA negotiations, such as the TPP, and how the Korean government is trying to cope with new conditions via scrutinized policy objectives.  

2015-05-13

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TPP Negotiation :History, Negotiation, Dynamics and Prospect

On April 27, 2015, Dr. Deborah Elms, the Executive Director of the Asian Trade Center in Singapore, gave a lecture on the topic of “Origins, Evolution and Current Status of TPP Negotiations.” As the bilateral negotiation between the US and Japan is known to be agreed and the TPP negotiation is imminently heading to a conclusion, this lecture timely served the students’ interests in such a proper way. Dr. Elms provided well-arranged and extensive explanations on the details of TPP history, agreed draft contents, and prospects. As TPP was often mystified due to tight control of information, students were eager to engage in the discussions on this allegedly new “21st century high quality” agreement.    

2015-04-27

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2015 Academic Symposium for Emerging Scholars

    On April 17, 2015, Symposium for Emerging Scholars hosted by the International Society of Fair Trade (ISFT) took place at the International Conference Hall. Many young and eager scholars who received prizes last year for their excellent thesis were given opportunities to make presentations about their research to experts and fellow scholars. There were two groups from SNU GSIS taking part JiYeong Yoo, and Dongchul Kwak and Minju Kim. They presented about WTO countervailing duties in conjunction with preexisting WTO laws, and also about the effects of exchange rates on anti-dumping investigation processes, respectively. Other topics included economic effects that existing FTAs have on new FTAs and trade patterns between Korea and different parts of China.  

2015-04-27

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ISIS Problem and Turkey’s Position

 On 21th of April, Abdulhamit Bilici, the general director of Cihan news agency from Turkey, made a special lecture at the International Conference Hall.  Bilici said ISIS has become a domestic problem for Turkey and at the same time externally, Turkey is now being blamed of supporting radical groups in the opposition sides, one of which is the ISIS, since the Syrian crisis. However, Turkey, with its relatively more democratic nature, decided to side with the opposition side of Syria. Bilici stressed that the problem was ISIS’s rise, which gives Assad an important legitimacy since Assad has shown more legitimate compared to ISIS. He called for more active roles by legitimate Muslim leaders and scholars. Questions followed the lecture starting from Professor Lee, Geun, who asked whether ISIS lacks in governance capability. Billici responded that ISIS actually has many intellectuals looking at how ISIS makes strong connection with the people.    

2015-04-21

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Special lecture : Faces of Korea's Manufacturing-Overview

On April 16, 2015, Dr. Tcha, Moonjoong from KDI gave a lecture on the topic of “Faces of Korea’s Manufacturing – Overview”. Dr. Tcha provided a constructive overview on the history of Korean industrial policy and analyzed current trends and future prospects of Korean manufacturing industry in relation to high integration of GVCs and the rise of service sector. Through a value-added approach and employment share approach of understanding the manufacturing sector in terms of exports, productivity, and GDP contribution, he emphasized a need for structural reform in the Korean industry sector in order to combat non-convergence trap problem, while facing continuous slowdown of Korea’s economic growth.    

2015-04-16

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The Openng Ceremony of CHAMP(China Advnced Managfement Program)

Seoul National University has opened CHAMP at GSIS.  CHAMP is Global Leaders Program to produce outstanding experts on China.  Opening Ceremony for CHAMP was held in the evening of April 7th at the International Conference Hall of GSIS.  The program aims to educate the Korean high level officials.  As China has grown rapidly as country with USD 10 trillion market economically, relationship between Korea and China in politics, economy, society, culture have upgraded as a whole range of cooperative stage. Social perception of high level government officials on China needs to be changed.    The program will comprehend Political Diplomacy, Economy Business, History, Merchant Culture, Philosophy. The lectures will be proceeded by the best specialists, and roundtable will be led by program participants. More over,  on-site culture visit will be arranged with the explanation of history scholars.  The whole program is  twenty one (21) week course.  

2015-04-16

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FTA-Seminar on New International Trade Order with Rising China

 On April 9, 2015, Professor Se Young AHN from Sogang University gave a lecture on the topic of “New International Trade Order with Rising China: Crisis or Opportunity?”. Professor Ahn talked about the rise of China, its trade conflicts with the US, as well as its consequent impact in establishing new trade order. He also shared some useful negotiation tips with the students in preparing for future trade negotiations.    

2015-04-10

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2015 GSIS Symposium

The GSIS Annual Symposium was held on March 30, 2015 at the International Conference Hall of SNU GSIS.  Professors from GSIS discussed political and economic prospects for the era of global changes. The symposium was divided into two sessions: "Political Prospects of East Asia under the New Normal" and "New Paradigms for the Global Economic System".

2015-04-01

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Did China Tire Safeguard Save U.S. Workers?

 On March 26, 2015, Dr. Chung, Sunghoon from KDI presented his research article titled “Did China Tire Safeguard Save U.S. Workers?” In his co-written article, Dr. Chung examined whether the US special safeguard measure on tires exported from China actually had a positive impact on protecting the US labor market by using econometric models. His article provided an interesting policy implication on the impact of enforcing trade remedy measures under the objective of protecting the domestic industry against the surge of foreign imports.

2015-03-27

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