May 12, 2016 | Media
A white beam lit up the wall above my head and I gathered the faux-fur covers around my shoulders and edged towards the window. It was cold in my compartment and the air held the sour dankness of the guards’ cheap cigarettes. Lifting a corner of the curtain, I...
Aug 26, 2015 | Media
South Korea is party to the Open Government Partnership (OGP), an international membership organization of more than 60 governments that have pledged to improve their democracy and transparency. Geoffrey Cain, who heads the Korea research team of the OGP, talks...
Mar 27, 2015 | Media
On Tuesday, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key wrapped up a three-day visit to South Korea during which he signed a free trade agreement. As might be expected, the South Korean media covered the visit, focusing mainly on the removal of tariffs and New Zealand’s...
Mar 2, 2015 | Media
March 2 — Asia Pacific Research CEO Geoffrey Cain discusses Samsung’s unveiling of the S6 and S6 Edge, featuring a three-sided screen, with Bloomberg’s Rishaad Salamat on “Trending Business.” Samsung S6 Is a Step in the Right...
Sep 19, 2012 | Media
Vietnamese officials are stepping up repression of old and new media even as they promote an image of an open, globalized economy. Intense surveillance and imprisonment of critical journalists, coupled with increasingly restrictive laws, are choking the flow of...
