J.R. Kim/ President, KCPC 1. Introduction As the Lee Jae-myung administration marks its first year in office, assessments of changes in South Korea’s foreign policy and the future trajectory of the ROK–U.S. alliance have become increasingly active. Since President Lee’s election in June last year, a central question among both domestic and international policy communities has been how the new administration would manage its alliance with the United States and recalibrat

James Younil Auh | Dean, Kyung Hee Cyber University In late November, I traveled to Yanbian in northeastern China for the inaugural Northeast Asia Cooperation Workshop, a joint initiative between KCPC and the Hanns Seidel Foundation. On the surface, it was a modest gathering: a series of meetings in Yanji, a few days of travel along the borderlands, and conversations shared around a table with scholars, NGO leaders, government officials, journalists, and businesspeople from t