Economics

Bridges, Anti-Corruption, and Minerals: Sino-North Korean Borderland News

By | May 25, 2023

Chinese Communist Party cadre in the border region with North Korea have got a lot on their plates: discipline and development. Plus a look at trade in Dandong.

Coffee, Copper and Trade Winds: The Promise of Panama-South Korea Economic Relations

By | July 18, 2022

Bound by a free-trade agreement and some pretty unique value-adds, Panama and South Korea’s bilateral relationship has a promising future.

The Red Genetics of Yanbian: New Research on Party Policy and Chosunjok Identity

By | July 08, 2022

How pivotal was Deng Xiaoping’s legacy for ethnic Koreans in China? Adam Cathcart reads some recent scholarship and Chinese materials to find out.

A Model(led) Minority: Socioeconomics Transforming Korean Diasporic Identities in China, Japan, and Germany

By | November 19, 2021

Casting a comparative lens, Victor de Valk explores the distinctive role of socioeconomics in transforming diasporic identities across three countries.

Yongusil 102: Borderland Readings of Note

By | September 10, 2021

Adam Cathcart returns to the pages of Sino-NK with a timely overview of some of the more intriguing and recent scholarly contributions on the Sino-Korean border region.