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The paper provides an overview of the most important results of a project on EU–Korea economic and regulatory relations funded by the European Commission. The paper first outlines the emergence and development of EU–Korea relations. In the second part, the paper presents the main findings clustered in three thematic areas. A first thematic area focuses on a discussion of the EU–Korea Free Trade Agreement. The second cluster analyzes EU–Korea cooperation on regulatory policies with a main focus on cooperation in the policy areas of security (arms trade and control), chemical regulation, environmental regulation, education, development cooperation and industrial policy. The third part focuses on EU–Korea cooperation concerning regional and international issues. In the third part, the paper presents the main recommendations which were formulated on the basis of the project.
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A report with all papers prepared for the project is available at the website of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies: http://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/projects/eu_korea/index_eu_korea.html
Mission of the Republic of The Republic of Korea to the EU (MRKE),“The Republic of Korea–EU Political Relations”, available at http://bel.mofat.go.kr/english/eu/bel/bilateral/eu/index.jsp
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Johan Adriaensen, junior member Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven.
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Director, Euro-Asia Centre, Professor of Economics, University of Limerick.
Katja Biedenkopf, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam.
Christoph Bluth, Professor of International Studies, University of Leeds.
Matthieu Burnay, Project Manager, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven.
Chang-Sang Cho, Assistant Secretary to the Republic of Korea’s President for Green Growth.
Sang-Duk Choi, Director, Office of Research Planning, Korean Educational Development Institute.
Nicolas Croquet, Associate, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP.
Shin Dongmin, PhD Researcher, King’s College London.
Bart Kerremans, professor of International Relations and American Politics, KU Leuven.
Axel Marx, Deputy Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven.
Eugenia Laurenza, Associate, FratiniVergano-European Lawyers.
Chan Song Lee, Researcher, Seoul National University.
James Mathis, Associate Professor of International Law, Unversity of Amsterdam.
Woo-sik Moon, Member Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of Korea.
Stefan Niederhafner, Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.
Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Lecturer of European and International Studies, King’s College London.
Wolfgang Pape, Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies.
Sunhee Park, Professor of International Relations, Seoul National University.
Yeongseop Rhee, Professor at Seoul National University.
Jadir Soares, Junior Member, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven.
Jan Wouters, Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and Full Professor of International Law, KU Leuven.
Neil Winn, Senior Lecturer in European Studies, University of Leeds.
Kishil Yang, Attorney of Law, Apex LLC, Seoul.
Deok Ryong Yoon, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute International Economic Policy East Asia.
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This paper is based on a research project conducted for the European Commission under research grant SI2.600768
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Marx, A., Wouters, J., Moon, W. et al. EU–Korea relations in a changing world project: main results and recommendations. Asia Eur J 12, 231–250 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-013-0368-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-013-0368-0