In 2020, Andreea Zaharia, associate researcher at RISAP, participated in the pan-European research project Mapping Out EU-South Korea Relations: Key Member States’ Perspectives. The project was implemented by the KF-VUB Korea Chair of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and concluded with a report analyzing the relations between South Korea and 7 EU member states, including Romania. Andreea conducted [...]
Seoul recently hosted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Teodor Meleșcanu. His visit comes after Moon Hee-sang, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, visited Bucharest last month. The reason for these bilateral visits is something that, unfortunately, few Korean or Romanians are aware of: 2018 marks the 10th [...]
North Korea’s newest test, of the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, brought back into public attention an issue that never seems to go away. But each and every time, the threats coming from Kim Jong-un and North Korea have been met with heads turning towards the United States, awaiting a new declaration, a renewed policy, more [...]
The drums of war have started beating again. From H.R. McMaster’s rejection of deterrence to Donald Trump’s comments about military readiness, it seems US policy is heading towards the military option. The development of both a North Korea intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and a miniaturized nuclear warhead has shortened the time-frame for dealing with Pyongyang. [...]
Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s first female President was dismissed from office by the Constitutional Court, after being impeached by Parliament. She joins a short list of heads of state dismissed during their term, next to the last president who suffered such a fate: Brazil’s first female President, Dilma Rousseff. During the last three decades, [...]
At a Samsung Group meeting in Frankfurt in 1993, founder Lee Kun-hee gave a speech that is regarded in the company as the lynchpin upon which it started its conquest of global markets. Speaking to hundreds of Samsung executives flown in from around the world, the chairman delivered a three-day talk later compiled in the book New Management. “Change everything [...]