On November 24, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS, Republic of Korea) held a conference on “Russia — South Korea: Dialogue in an Era of Uncertainty.”
On November 24, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS, Republic of Korea) held a conference on “Russia — South Korea: Dialogue ...
... beneficial partnership built to date.
Integration as a path to peace
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia and China in the Era of Trade Wars and Sanctions
From the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1990 until the sharp downturn in cooperation in 2022, the Republic of Korea
invested
around $3.5 billion in the Russian economy—less than 1% of South Korea’s total outbound foreign investment over that period. After 2014, when Crimea joined Russia, Seoul deliberately slowed the pace of foreign trade operations, yet from 2017 to 2022 business activity grew steadily.
In 2022
, bilateral trade ...
... Embassy in the Republic of Korea reported that a consignment of 100 SsangYong Musso pickup trucks had been sent to Ukraine for “humanitarian” purposes (see
Fig. 2
).
Fig. 2: The shipment of 100 SsangYong Musso pickups from the port of Incheon, South Korea, to Ukraine
Source: Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Korea
The “humanitarian” aspect of this shipment is highly questionable in view of the known facts that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) use “jihad-mobiles” with MLRS rocket launchers installed on them (see
Fig. 3
).
Fig. 3. The use ...
South Korea’s domestic politics reveals a drama show
South Korea’s home affairs have been nothing short of a riveting drama series unfolding in real time. While the previous season starring Moon Jae-in was about a dragon slayer turned a dragon but ...
..., steps with respect to Russia will be strictly controlled and restrained from Washington. Therefore, we should not expect much autonomy and progress from the Koreans.
This is nothing new for Russia. President Putin publicly spoke back in 2019 about South Korea’s “shortage of sovereignty” when making decisions regarding its relations with Moscow, even if it serves its own interests. “The Republic of Korea has certain allied obligations before the United States. Therefore, everything stops at a certain moment,” he
said
.
To be fair, it should be noted that the new South Korean administration is well-intentioned. Thus, the pre-election ...
Prospects of Russia — China and U.S. — China relations as well as possible scenarios after the U.S. presidential elections were discussed at the meeting
On August 27, 2020, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Russia Lee Sok-Bae. Prospects of Russia — China and U.S. — China relations as well as possible scenarios after the U.S. presidential elections were discussed at the meeting.
RIAC Program Manager Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Assistant ...
... Now that the unrest around the pandemic has more or less subsided, the economic problems in the country, aggravated by the pandemic and corruption scandals involving people close to Moon, are again coming to the fore in the public consciousness of the South Koreans. So today, the President of the Republic of Korea is clearly not up to talking with Pyongyang.
The pressure of the big ally certainly plays its role. Before the results of the U.S. presidential election, Washington will not only be unable to take any action on the Korean vector, but ...
... the two countries in the fight against the new type of coronavirus, the impact of the pandemic on the situation in Russia and South Korea, and its consequences for the global economy and the system of international relations. Special attention during the ... ... Russian-Korean cooperation and for developing a common response to the challenges of the post-coronavirus world order.
The success of the Republic of Korea in the fight against COVID-19 is due to a number of factors, including the quick response of the authorities,...
On January 13, 2020, the managers of the South Korean investment company Korea Investment & Securities Asia visited Russian International Affairs Council
On January 13, 2020, the managers of the South Korean investment company Korea Investment & Securities Asia visited Russian International ...
... non-proliferation regimes
regarding both weapons of mass destruction and conventional weapons. In this case, the restrictions would extend to other types of commodities and materials. On August 2, the Cabinet of Japan
approved the decision
to take South Korea off its “white list” (where the Republic of Korea was the only Asian state), thereby depriving it of trade preferences in regard to the materials mentioned above. The full list exceeds 1100 items
Despite these events,
several deliveries
of these materials from Japan to South Korea ...
