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<span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;">As the new South Korean president reviews inter-Korean engagement within a changed international environment, a new online course contemplates
economic engagement relative to other approaches, its different forms and geopolitical context, and teaches participants how to study economic data, international law and experience of the North Korean legal system to make sophisticated economic and ethical
judgements about existing or potential economic projects.</span><br style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);">
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<span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'Considering
Economic Engagement' is a small, selective rather than Mass Open Online Course, but the expertise of lecturers is no less than that of leading MOOC courses, with presentations from leading scholars including: </span></span></p>
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<li>Stephan Haggard (University of California San Diego and the Peterson Institute for International Economics)<br>
</li><li>Kim Byung-Yeon (Seoul National University) <br>
</li><li>Balazs Szalontai (Korea University) <br>
</li><li>Tristan Webb (University of Kent and formerly UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office) <br>
</li><li>Adam Cathcart (University of Leeds)<br>
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well as those with first-hand experience of economic engagement including: </span></span></p>
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<li>Erich Weingartner (CanKor) <br>
</li><li>Andray Abrahamian (Choson Exchange)<br>
</li><li>Felix Abt (serial entrepreneur<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;">behind</span><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pyongsu
Pharma, Pyongyang Business School</span><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;">)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew Bates and Stina Bae</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;">Course Coordinators for</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>online
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