Aidan Foster-Carter graduated with honours from Balliol College, Oxford having read PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). His current work consists mostly, but not restricted to, freelance writings on Korea; promoting understanding, peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula. His past work has been with various government and non-government organisations, multinational corporations, ranging from Unilever to UNICEF, Yale to the LSE, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) to The Economist.