The sharp confrontation between the US and China in high-tech industries continues. Securing and protecting the competitiveness of advanced technologies such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI) are emerging as key issues in external economic security, and the US government...

This paper aims to identify the signs of insolvency or competitiveness in the multilayered structure of all industries and enterprises and in the integration method.From an industrial perspective, this paper identifies the spectrum of industrial competitiveness across all subsegments of the...

The Korean real estate brokerage sector has grown in size thanks to rising real estate prices and transaction volumes. Despite its importance, the industry offers low consumer utility and relatively slow innovation due to lack of incentives for competition in the quality of service and prices...

Cross-border B2C e-commerce is growing rapidly in Korea. According to data released by Statistics Korea, Korea’s total retail import value from the cross-border e-commerce trade in 2017 stood at about KRW 2.2 trillion, while in 2021 it reached KRW 5.1 trillion.2 The total retail value of...

The exodus of Korea’s population from the countryside to the capital Seoul and its suburbs, known in Korea as the sudokwon and referred to in this paper as the Seoul Capital Area (SCA), continues unabated to this day, particularly among the youth. The resulting increase in population density...

At the outset of 2022, the South Korean economy sought to start anew, aiming to finally surmount the hurdles of COVID-19. Unfortunately, however, the economy is now confronted with an unprecedented level of uncertainty, as one unforeseen risk after another emerged over the course of 2022. These...

The Consumer Electronics Show in 2021 featured innovative products for the “changed-everyday” that is expected to characterize the post-COVID-19 world. Such products demonstrate that the so-called “digital transformation” is already well underway.AI is now a mandatory foundational...

Korea’s industrial robot sector is now the world’s fifth-largest, aided by systematic and consistentgovernment policy over the past decade. It is still heavily reliant on imports for key parts however,and the industry is fragmented, consisting of many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in...

While overall production of the manufacturing industry has contracted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, total employment levels have not undergone a major adjustment.Unlike the service industry, which saw an immediate reduction in employment, the manufacturing industry has more-or-less maintained...

This study takes a comprehensive look at the overall flexibility of regulatory governance in Korea, including the design, implementation, and monitoring of the many issues surrounding regulatory reform that stand in the way of innovation growth. Based on the findings of the analysis, the paper...