Notes

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  For example, the RK’s comprehensive state strategy for reaching Central Asia was approved in 2007 during the Roh Moo-hyun presidency.
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  For more detail on the RK Eurasian Initiative, see: Jae-Young Lee, 2017, ’Korea’s Eurasia Initiative and the Development of Russia’s Far East and Siberia’, in ’The Political Economy of Pacific Russia’, eds. Huang, J & Korlev, A, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 103–125.
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  Between 2008 and 2010, investment grew by over $300 million per year, but it dropped to $110 million in 2016, according to KOEXIM data, Foreign Investment Statistics, access date: 23.03.2017.
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  Russia accounts for 2.51% (2.9% in 2014) of Korean foreign direct investment in BRICS, which is much less than the share of China (75%), Brazil (15.5%), and even India (6.92%), according to KOEXIM data, Foreign Investment Statistics, access date: 23.03.2017.
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  Lee Jae-young, 2017, ’To solve North Korea issue, Moon administration should pursue northern cooperation’, The Hankyoreh, June 1, p. 21.
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  Flegontova, T, 2017, ’Russia’s Approach and Interests’, Valdai Discussion Club Report, March, p. 12.
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  Vinokurov, E, 2017, ’Eurasian Economic Union: Current state and preliminary results’, Russian Journal of Economics. no. 3, p. 66.
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  Lee Dae Seob, 2017, ’Koreiskoie selskokhozyaistvennoe proizodstvo na rossiiskom Dalnem Vostoke’ [Korean agricultural production in Russia’s Far East], EKO, no. 5, p. 43-60.
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  According to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Available from: http:/www.cbr.ru (access date: 23.03.2017)
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  According to the World Bank, Doing Business Data. Available from: http://www.doingbusiness.org/data (access date: 28.03.2017)