The strong correlation between imports and exports of sophisticated products demonstrates that China imports unfinished sophisticated parts from other East Asian countries, and then it simply assembles the parts without adding much value in this portion of the production chain.

Since the majority of high school graduates pursue higher education in South Korea, the competition is undoubtedly fierce among college bound students. It is the norm that students take 3-5 private lessons [...]

As the world’s economic condition continues to worsen, South Korea’s economy is not exempt. In 2007, as the sub-prime mortgage disaster began to surface, many experts believed that the financial crisis would be limited to the U.S. and countries heavily intertwined with it [...]

In 1997, the East Asian currency and financial crisis sparked one of the largest reversals of growth in recent times. The detrimental effects were felt around the world, though they were particularly severe for Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, and Indonesia [...]

With the explosive growth of nations such as China on the world economic stage and the political instability in the Middle East, it is natural to closely attend to such regions, whose global import is unquestionable. It is imperative that the United States continue to [...]

Mass rural-urban migration in China has captured the attention of media outlets around the world. However, these reports tend to frame migration itself as a detrimental process and a testament to China’s unjust human rights [...]