Ramon Pacheco Pardo is a professor of international relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea chair at the Brussels School of Governance. He is also an adjunct nonresident fellow at the Korea chair with the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a steering committee member at the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, EU; and a Scientific Council member at Elcano Royal Institute. His books include Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop (2022) and Korea: A New History of South and North (2023, with Victor Cha).
A row of a dozen Polish and South Korean officials stand in a line on wet pavement on an overcast day in front of two large armored tanks. All of the officials are men, and most wear coats over dark-colored suits. In the foreground, out-of-focus hands are visible holding cameras and phones to take photos of the officials.
