The Asan Institute for Policy Studies (Korean: 아산정책연구원; Hanja: 峨山政策硏究院)[1] is an independent, non-profit think tank based in Seoul, South Korea.
The institute conducts research in national security and foreign policy, area studies, public opinion, domestic politics, social science methodology, and global governance.
[2] The Asan Institute was also ranked 5th among foreign policy and security-related research institutions in the Korea Economic Daily's annual survey of "Korea`s Top 100 Think Tanks in 2016.”[3] The Asan Report entitled 'In China's Shadow' was published in September 2016.
[4] The Asan Forum is a bimonthly journal launched in 2013 for in-depth interpretation of rapid changes across the Asia-Pacific region.
[citation needed] The Asan Academy (아산서원; 峨山書院) offers a liberal arts educational program based on a combination of Korea's Confucian system of scholarship (Seowon) and the University of Oxford's renowned “Philosophy, Politics, and Economics" (PPE) degree.