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New Book Outlines the Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Future Economic Growth in East Asia
APARC Offers Fellowship and Funding Opportunities to Support, Diversify Stanford Student Participation in Contemporary Asia Research
APARC Experts on the Outlook for U.S.-Asia Policy Under the Biden Administration
University Entrepreneurship Programs May Not Increase Entrepreneurship Rates, Stanford Researchers Find
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Democrartic Erosion in South Korea
APARC Announces 2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellowships for Emerging Scholars in Contemporary Asia, Japan, and Korea Studies
Student Documentary Celebrates Transnational Brain Linkages
How WWII Continues to Shape Regional and International Relations in Asia
“Co-Bots,” Not Overlords, Are the Future of Human-Robot Labor Relationships
Call for Stanford Student Applications: APARC Hiring 2020-21 Research Assistants
A Closer Look at Samsung Offers Insights into South Korean Society
Democracy in South Korea is Crumbling from Within
Experts Discuss Future U.S. Relations with North Korea Amid Escalations
Ninth Annual Korean Studies Writing Prize Awarded
APARC Announces Diversity Grant to Support Underrepresented Minority Students Interested in Contemporary Asia
Koret Conference Convenes Virtually to Discuss Human Rights Crisis in North Korea
FSI Hosts APARC Panel on COVID-19 Impacts in Asia
Ninth Annual Writing Prize in Korean Studies
Gi-Wook Shin Offers Analysis of 2020 Korean National Election
APARC Announces New Fellowship and Internship Opportunities for Stanford Students
Amid the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, students are facing summer internship cancelations and hiring freezes. They are left wondering about the long-term implications of the current crisis for their academic careers and their access to future jobs and valuable work experience.
Korean Democracy Is Sinking Under the Guise of the Rule of Law
There is a Korean expression that means “to become soaked by a drizzle without noticing.” This metaphor is a timely warning against the gradual decline of democratic norms. Though some of the changes underlying this global phenomenon are subtle, they are producing creeping, piecemeal erosions of democracy and pluralism. The signs of democratic backsliding are now emerging everywhere in South Korean society, and a failure to recognize and robustly counter their effects may create future costs that prove unbearable.
The Role of Human Rights in Policy Toward North Korea
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, North Korea continues to carry out weapons testing and to declare that not a single COVID-19 patient has emerged in the country. Analysts and medical experts, however, are highly skeptical of Pyongyang’s claims. A coronavirus outbreak would overwhelm the North’s weak healthcare system and would be devastating to its people, who suffer from relatively high levels of malnutrition and have no access to information about the pandemic.
U.S. Tech Companies Can Do More During the COVID-19 Outbreak
As a resident of Silicon Valley heading into our second week under the shelter in place order, what surprises me is the sudden low profile of the tech companies that dominate this area. Until just a month ago it seemed like these companies were taking over the world - churning out new products, connecting people online, providing information and news, and in turn driving equity and real estate prices to unprecedented new highs. But as the COVID-19 cases explode in the US, we rarely hear about them.
A Perfect Storm: Victor Cha Talks COVID-19 Threat to North Korea, Nuclear Deadlock
North Korea continues to declare that it has not had a single case of COVID-19, but health experts find it inconceivable that the infectious disease would not be in the country given its proximity to China and South Korea, two early victims of the pandemic. A coronavirus outbreak in the North could be devastating, says Asian affairs and security expert Victor Cha, as it would act on an extremely vulnerable population with already-compromised immune systems and outdated health care infrastructure.
Shining Light on the Threats to Democracy and Human Rights in Asia
Around the world, democracy is in retreat. In its Freedom in the World 2019 report, the independent watchdog organization Freedom House records the 13th consecutive year of global declines in political rights and civil liberties.