May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a celebration of the history, contributions, and culture of Americans from Asia and the Pacific Islands. As we reported earlier, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up 5.6% of the American population – 17.3 million – and grew by 46% in the last ten years, faster...
On April 16th, the Executive Directors of the World Bank selected Dr. Jim Yong Kim, currently serving as president of Dartmouth College, to succeed Robert Zoellick as president of the global development loan agency beginning this July. Dr. Kim will be the twelfth president of the World Bank Group since its founding in 1944, and...
According to a new data recently released by the US Census Bureau, Asians and Asian Americans grew faster than any other race group in America in the last decade. The 2010 Census reported last year that 17.3 million people who identified themselves as Asian or Asian American resided in the United States (self-identifying as either...
President Obama wrapped up three days in Korea on Tuesday, after attending the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit and visiting the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ), the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea. While in Seoul, he also held several bilateral meetings with the leaders of a number of countries, including Korea, China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia,...
US states exported $413 billion worth of merchandise to Asia in 2011, according to preliminary data released by the Commerce Department. We broke down the exports to four major Asian destinations – Japan, Korea, Australia and the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – to show which states are gaining the...
The US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, set to take effect on March 15, nearly five years after it was first drafted, has major implications for many of America’s industries, both large and small. For example, Detroit and other auto-manufacturing areas will see benefits as a result of reduced tariffs and increased import quotas of US cars...
South Korean trade officials have announced that the long-awaited free trade agreement between the US and Korea will take effect on March 15th of this year. Initially signed in 2007 and modified in 2010, the KOR-US FTA, as it is known, was ratified by the governments of both countries in 2011. There remains some political...
US has lost over one quarter of high-tech manufacturing jobs in past decade For the first time in history, the Asian region in 2009 spent as much on research and development in science and technology (S&T) fields as the United States, the traditional leader in high technology investment. The spending has cost American jobs because...
South Korea and the US will both be holding legislative and presidential elections over the next ten months, setting the stage for potentially significant leadership changes. These changes may spark fresh Korean public debate regarding the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement and may also have an impact on both governments’ approach to North Korea in the...
Last week marked the start of the year of the dragon throughout much of East Asia, but thousands of young people celebrated the Lunar New Year half a world away on college campuses across the United States. Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, and Tet celebrations have become increasingly common as the population of international students...
Kurt Campbell, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific, was in Seoul again on Tuesday for the second time in a month. During his speech to mark the 55th anniversary of the Korea Society, Secretary Campbell made it clear that the US is eager to engage in diplomatic talks with North...
This past Tuesday on Late Show with David Letterman on CBS and Wednesday morning on LIVE! with Kelly on ABC, American audiences were captivated by performances from Korean pop sensation Girls’ Generation. The group, known as SNSD (소녀시대, So-nyeo Shi-dae) in Korea, is a major player in the Korean music industry. Between music sales and...
