South Korea and the United States are well positioned to overcome their domestic energy problems
through bilateral international cooperation. Korea has increasingly imported LNG from the United States,
and as a result, the two nations have also seen economic benefits in trade and investment. As global energy
demand is anticipated to grow, there are market opportunities for Korea and the US to coordinate and
integrate their energy industries, R&D and policies to export clean energy technologies to emerging
markets. Furthermore, the US and Korea are uniquely positioned to collaborate to compete against the
state-backed nuclear energy companies of Russia and China by combining their capacities. Korea’s
technology and construction prowess combined with the US’s political will, regulation, and expertise could
pose a strong counterpoint to the state-backed energy and infrastructure models endorsed and executed
by Russia and China.
