[학술논문] 존폐위기의 개성공단: 현황과 전망

...its own institutional underdevelopment. Despite its apparent influence over North Korean workers and markets, the impact of the KIC is evaluated to have been limited in inducing North Korean economic reform and openness. From a security perspective, the KIC was a source of concern that could limit South Korea's military options by raising the possibility of South Korean workers in the KIC being...

[학술논문] China’s Status-Quo-Plus Policy toward the Korean Peninsula and Its Implications

...China’s recent expansion of economic influence in terms of trade and investment in the North seems to be contributing to North Korea’s dilapidated economy. But the most important factor is North Korea’s sincerity regarding dismantling its nuclear devices on the diplomatic table, and the question is whether the North will initiate profound policy change to reform and open door, following China’s...

[학술논문] 국민은 선명한 대북정책기조를 바란다: 걱정되는 박근혜대통령의 「신뢰프로세스」

...be airborne due to the North’s refusal to accept. North Korea had categorically rejected President Lee’s offer that the South would provide the North with an economic aid package of a scale sufficient to help the North raise its per capita income to $3,000 in exchange for the North’s abandonment of its nuclear ambition and acceptance of a policy of opening and reform a la China.

[학술논문] Symptoms of North Korea’s Economic System: Now is the Time to Open up Economically

Since suffering economic difficulties, particularly from the 1990s onwards, North Korea, even implicitly, has taken several actions based on the nature of its limited market economy system. North Korean scholars seem to have attempted to practice economic reform and a more open-door policy by learning the capitalistic market economy system. This paper investigates the current state of trends of North...

[학술논문] Feasibility of FTA between South and North Korea: Through Analysis of Intra-State Trades and North Korea’s Economic Reformation Scheme

...intra-German trade, the two Germanys could accomplish unification based on continuous human exchange and economic integration. Recently, China has also completed free trade level agreements (ECFA and CEPA) with Taiwan and city states, Hong Kong and Macau. China and Taiwan have made a stronger economic foundation and unification circumstance through the agreement. The trade of divided nations such as Korea...