Tagged: South Korea

[POLICY] Trip to Paris, France for the 2023 Paris Defence Young Leaders Programme organized by IRSEM (Institut de la Recherche Stratégique et Militaire)

From June 11 to 16, 2023, I participated in the second edition of the Paris Defence Young Leaders Programme organized by IRSEM (Institut de la Recherche Stratégique et Militaire). My engagements with the foreign embassies in Seoul regarding economic security had led to the opportunity – when I was recommended by Sandra Cohen, Conseillère of […]

[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 […]

[PUBLICATION] ‘Asia in the GCC: A New Strategic Partner?’ published by the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (MECGA) and Waseda University

In August 2022, I was asked to join the project on ‘Asia in the GCC: A New Strategic Partner?’ by Dr. Adel Abdel Ghafar of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (MECGA) in Doha, Qatar. MECGA (formerly the Brookings Doha Center) had the proposal to hold two international conferences, one in the Gulf (MECGA […]

[EXPERT PANEL + PUBLICATION] ‘Democracy in Asia’ Phase II Project Report Launch Event at the Brookings Institution

In December 2022, the second phase of the Democracy in Asia Project of the Foreign Policy Program of the Brookings Institution was completed. I joined the project while at Princeton on a Fung Global Fellowship, and was invited by Dr. Shirley Syaru Lin of CAPRI (Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation) and a non-resident Senior […]

[EXPERT PANEL + REPORT] Discussion on the Geopolitics of global high-tech standards with the Oxford Global Society (OXGS)

I was invited to speak on a panel with the Oxford Global Society (OXGS) around mid-August 2022 when I was preparing for the interview for the Schmidt Futures – Oxford University (Mansfield College) fellowship. Since my job interview with the Nissan Institute at Oxford University in the first pandemic year this was my second interaction […]

[EXPERT PANEL] ‘Privacy & Ethics in the Digital Era’ at the 2022 Asian Leadership Conference

During my visit to South Korea this summer, I spoke on a panel at the Asian Leadership Conference held in Seoul from July 13-14, 2022 at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul. Usually the ALC involves speakers that are big-shots in grand ballrooms and I enjoyed the line-up of speakers that are well known, but also […]

[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 […]

[EIU ViewsWire] North Korea cyber-attacks raise security threat to the South

North Korea cyber-attacks raise security threat to the South, ViewsWire, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), September 16, 2021.

[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 […]

[PUBLICATIONS] Research article in the Italian journal PArtecipazione e COnflitto (PACO) and Commentary for NBR on Public Health and Data Privacy

The article I had been working on since last summer is finally being published at the Italian journal, PArtecipazione e COnflitto (PACO), in the special issue on COVID-19 and the Structural Crisis of Liberal Democracies. The research for this article was awarded the Fung Global Fellowship at Princeton University in 2021: June Park. “Governing a […]