Wharton's Philip Nichols and Stanford's Richard Dasher discuss the impact of the recent elections in South Korea.

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South Korea has elected a liberal president whose policies are in opposition to its impeached former leader, Park Geun-hye. During a recent appearance on Knowledge at Wharton’s SiriusXM show  Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Philip Nichols and Richard Dasher, director of Stanford University’s US-Asia Technology Management Center,  discussed the impact Moon Jae-in’s policies and a less hawkish approach to North Korea could have on the region and U.S. relations.

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The Knowledge at Wharton SiriusXM show airs Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. EST, on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM channel 111.
Image credit: By Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Photographer name), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58725990

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