South Korea
2017
Feb
27
Past Event
Korean unification: Prospect and global implications
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Washington, DC
2017
Jan
13
Past Event
KDI-Brookings Workshop on the Productivity Puzzle
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Washington, DC
[The South Korean retirement scandal has] created huge risks to the integrity and legitimacy of the NPS [National Pension Service]. They know the math. There will have to be a push to diversify and decrease the overinvesting in a small number of companies.
The jobs China is accused of stealing, many were lost a long time ago to Korea or Japan and moved from there to China. A lot of that job loss occurred because of technology change. [And despite Trump's promises to bring jobs back to the US,] nobody in the US would do them at the wages companies would want to charge. Those jobs are never going to be gotten back.