Tagged: Semiconductors

[FELLOWSHIP] Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council), Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), George Washington University (GWU)

At the end of July 2023, I relocated to Doha, Qatar for one year, to conuduct my project, ROK-GCC as Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (formerly Brookings Doha Center). My project will be ROK-GCC and spread across three main issues and will conduct fieldwork in KSA, UAE and Qatar: Technology […]

[POLICY] Semiconductor Fieldwork to Taipei, Taiwan with The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS) of The Netherlands

From July 1 to 5, 2023, I visited Taipei, Taiwan alongside colleagues of The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) of The Netherlands. Given the geopolitical tensions across the Taiwan Straits and the crucial importance of chips, our visit was filled with discussions with local policymakers, academics and industry persons on contingency scenarios, U.S.-China tensions […]

[PUBLICATION] ‘US-ROK Science and Tech Partnership on Critical Technologies’ published by the Pacific Forum and George Mason University Korea

At the end of summer in 2022, when I was pulling myself out of the Washington, DC policy circles after the passing of the CHIPS & Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S., I was invited to contribute to a joint conference on US.-ROK Science and Tech Partnership on Critical Technologies in […]

[EXPERT PANEL] ‘South Korea and the New Geoeconomics of Asia’ at the Brookings Institution

On May 25, 2022, I spoke for the first time at a panel organized by Dr. Mireya Solis and Dr. Andrew Yeo at the Center on East Asia Policy (CEAP) at the Foreign Policy Program of the Brookings Institution, with distinguished panelists Hye-Min Lee and Wendy Cutler, who were the prime negotiators of the U.S.-ROK FTA […]

[PUBLICATION + LECTURE] EAF sequel piece on Semiconductors published / Webinar at Australian National University

In May 2021, the East Asia Forum at Australian National University requested an update on the Japan-South Korean chip war which began in July 2019. I had been working on semiconductors for the past few years and was in the middle of preparing for my manuscript for peer-review in line with the latest developments. I learned […]

[DOSSIER] Contribution on Semiconductors to Italian think-tank ISPI (Instituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale) published

My latest contribution on semiconductors in global manufacturing has been published in an edited dossier by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies, or ISPI (Instituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale), an Italian think-tank in Milan, Italy and a partner of the G20 Summit hosted by the Italian government in 2021. June Park. ‘Why […]

[SPECIAL PANEL] Japan and Korea in China-US Relations: A Reappraisal of the Post-War Order

Japan and Korea in China-US Relations: A Reappraisal of the Post-War Order Join me and other panelists of the 2019-2021 Korea Foundation Core Working Group on Japan and Korea in China-US Relations on August 31, 2020 at the Special Panel of the AAS-in-Asia 2020 on livestream by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR). The roundtable session is entitled, ‘Japan and […]