Uncertainty Indices for South Korea

We are pleased to host three indexes of Economic Policy Uncertainty and related concepts for South Korea that were developed by independent groups:

Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven Davis developed an index of Economic Policy Uncertainty for South Korea that runs from January 1990 to the present.

Dooyeon Cho and Husang Kim developed indexes of Economic Policy Uncertainty for South Korea that cover both total and categorical political uncertainty, also running from January 1990 to the present.

Seungho Jung, Jongmin Lee, and Seohyun Lee developed indexes of Geopolitical Risk from North Korea running from January 1995 to 2021.

All teams follow the newspaper-based methods in "Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty" by Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis.

Interested data users should click on the links above for data and additional information.