The East Asia Institute (President Yul Sohn) hosted an online seminar entitled "South Korea's Strategy in Times of a Great Economic Decoupling” with Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC). During the seminar, panelists discussed economic and security challenges that arise from U.S.-China economic decoupling as well as South Korea's strategy.

• Date & Time: September 18, 2020 9:00-10:40 AM (KST)

• Speakers: Taeho Bark (President, Lee & Ko Global Commerce Institute; Former Minister of Trade of Korea), Charles Freeman (Senior Vice President for Asia, U.S. Chamber of Commerce), David Kang (Maria Crutcher Professor in International Relations, Business and East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC; Director, USC Korean Studies Institute), Seungjoo Lee (Professor in Political Science and International Relations, Chung-Ang University; Chair, Trade, Technology and Transformation Research Center)

• Discussants: Yong Suk Lee (SK Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Deputy Director of the Korea Program, APARC), Seong-Ho Sheen (Professor of International Security and East Asia, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University)

• Moderators: Gi-Wook Shin (Director, APARC; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies), Yul Sohn (President EAI; Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University)