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[Etc] [KLI Brief 2025-01] 2024 Labor Market Review and 2025 Outlook

Abstract

Employment growth, which averaged 336,000 from January to October last year, slowed to 184,000 during the same period in 2024. Employment growth has slowed, the unemployment rate has increased ...

2025: Center for Labor Trends Analysis | Korea Labor Institute

[Policy] The Significance of Designating 2025 as the Year of Friendship between North Korea and Vietnam

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On January 31, 2025, Kim Jong Un, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam, and Vietnamese President Luong Cuong exchanged congratulatory messages to commemorate the 75th ...

2025: Hwang, Soo Hwan | Korea Institute for National Unification

[Policy] The Re-Emergence of Trump and Inter-Korean Relations

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The second Trump administration’s coercive diplomacy, which combines diplomatic negotiations with military threats, economic sanctions, and political pressure, has significantly impacted ...

2025: Chung, Sung Yoon | Korea Institute for National Unification

[Etc] THE JOURNEY OF SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE IN KOREA

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Spatial information has its roots in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which were first introduced in the 1960s by Dr. Roger Tomlinson, a Canadian geographer. During the 1970s and 1980s, ...

2025: 사공호상 | Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements

[Policy] The Dilemma Between Stimulation and Control in the North Korean Tourism Industry

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North Korea opened Rason to foreign tourists for the first time in five years since it closed its borders due to COVID-19. North Korea has been developing its tourism industry since Kim Jong Un ...

2025: Hwang, Joo Hee | Korea Institute for National Unification

[Policy] Russia–North Korea Strategic Convergence and Possible Response Measures

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North Korea has strengthened its strategic convergence with Russia by exploiting such issues as increasing US–China and US–Russia tensions, the growth of China–Russia military cooperation, ...

2025: Oh, Gyeong-Seob | Korea Institute for National Unification

[Policy] Assessment of the 12th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea: A Focus on Economic Projects and the Budget Report

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The 12th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) of North Korea was held over two days from January 22 to 23, 2025. This year, the attention of the outside world was focused on ...

2025: Choi, Ji Young | Korea Institute for National Unification

[Policy] Human Rights Implications of Shock Brigades (Dolgyeokdae) under the Kim Jong Un Regime in 2024: Forced Labor

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Since the early days of his rule, Kim Jong Un has aggressively promoted mass mobilization under the pretext of a public movement to build a “strong and prosperous nation.” In particular, ...

2025: Cho, Hyun Jung | Korea Institute for National Unification

[Policy] International Legal Implications of North Korean POWs Dispatched to Russia

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The matter of North Korean POWs must be handled with utmost priority in terms of human rights, which are fundamental and universally shared values. The repatriation of North Korean POWs is ...

2025: Kim, Taewon | Korea Institute for National Unification

[Policy] Inter-Korean Social and Cultural Exchanges: Recovery and Restart

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The restoration of peaceful inter-Korean relations has become a pressing issue. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to all travels, exchanges, and cooperation between the two Koreas ...

2025: 정은미 | Korea Institute for National Unification

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[Etc] [KLI Brief 2025-01] 2024 Labor Market Review and 2025 Outlook

[Policy] The Significance of Designating 2025 as the Year of Friendship between North Korea and Vietnam

[Policy] The Re-Emergence of Trump and Inter-Korean Relations

[Etc] THE JOURNEY OF SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE IN KOREA

[Policy] The Dilemma Between Stimulation and Control in the North Korean Tourism Industry

[Policy] Russia–North Korea Strategic Convergence and Possible Response Measures

[Policy] Assessment of the 12th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea: A Focus on Economic Projects and the Budget Report

[Policy] Human Rights Implications of Shock Brigades (Dolgyeokdae) under the Kim Jong Un Regime in 2024: Forced Labor

[Policy] International Legal Implications of North Korean POWs Dispatched to Russia

[Policy] Inter-Korean Social and Cultural Exchanges: Recovery and Restart