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June 5, 2025: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and a Distinguished Military Fellow, was interviewed by TV4 Nyhetsdagen about the election result in South Korea. The interview (in Swedish) can be watched here (approx 3 hrs 26 min into the broadcast).

June 4, 2025: Yesterday, the Stockholm Korea Center had the pleasure of hosting a delegation from the National Assembly Research Service (NARS). During the visit, a roundtable discussion about DPRK-Russia-China cooperation was held. In continuation of this, the consequences for Europe, as well as the importance of the EU and the ROK increasing their cooperation across […]

June 4, 2025: Jeenou Yi, a current guest researcher at the Stockholm Korea Center, presented a lecture at Uppsala University on June 2, 2025. His lecture highlighted the potential for the EU and South Korea to enhance collaboration in areas such as international rule-based order, democracy, and human rights. In addition, with South Korea’s presidential […]

June 3, 2025: In May 2025, the Stockholm China Center, represented by Fatoumata Diallo and Maud Descamps, engaged in high-level discussions in Prague as part of the EuroHub4Sino (EH4S) project. On May 20, the Center participated in an expert workshop at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, co-organized by the Central European Institute of Asian […]

June 2, 2025: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of Stockholm Center for South Asia and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in the international conference titled “Armenia and the Global Gateway: Opportunities within Global South Connectivity” organized by the Armenian State University of Economics, Yerevan, Armenia, on 23 May 2025. This conference covered a wide range of issues covering […]

May 27, 2025: ISDP is delighted to welcome Jeenou Yi as Guest Researcher at the Stockholm Korea Center this summer. Jeenou Yi is the Co-founder and President of the International Division at the Korea Young Leaders Forum. In this role, he works to foster bipartisan dialogue on foreign and security policy, develop forward-looking proposals on […]

May 27, 2025: On the 16th of May, Maj Gen (ret) Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and a Distinguished Military Fellow, was invited to moderate an Author’s Talk at the Korean Culture Center in Stockholm. The talk was centered on the launch of the book “A New History of South and North” […]

May 23, 2025: The recording of the webinar “The Underrepresentation of Women in South Korean Politics – How to Empower Women’s Participation?” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The Stockholm Korea Center of the Institute for Security and Development Policy and the Korea Young Leaders Forum organized a one-hour webinar commemorating the International Day […]

May 22, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted in the Guardian on the Russian shadow fleet and its importance for the Russian war economy and national security. “Anna Wieslander, the director for northern Europe at the Atlantic Council, said in the middle of last year “we realised that this not in […]

May 21, 2025: The recording of the digital Taiwan Lecture “Assessing the Challenges of Taiwanese Semiconductor Firms’ Expansion into Europe” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The semiconductor shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the urgency of restructuring the semiconductor supply chain. To strengthen its supply chain security, the European Union (EU) […]