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Mortgage restrictions can reduce bank lending without removing the money supporting expensive homes. Property gains, jeonse deposits, family capital, public guarantees and private credit increasingly determine who can still buy—and where the risk ultimately resides.
Busan proved that people would travel for a new kind of cafe. As the market contracts and sales concentrate among fewer operators, the harder test is whether destination cafes can survive after the view, the building and the bakery are no longer new.
South Korea is earning extraordinary income from the hardware behind the AI boom. Following the money through corporate profits, household portfolios, property, debt and the workplace reveals why that success has yet to produce broad-based prosperity.
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What began as a joint U.S.-Israeli strike campaign against Iran has widened into a conflict over missile power, Gulf energy infrastructure, maritime chokepoints and the political limits of U.S. war control.
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Reporting and analysis from the Busan news desk in the Breeze in Busan file.
A five-year review-manipulation network counted medical providers as its largest client category. The missing client data now determine what the case can reveal about competition for patients in South Korea.
As South Korea hosts UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee for the first time, Busan is preparing an expanded 11-site wartime-capital property. Its historical case is persuasive; the harder test is defining the evidence, boundaries and authority needed to protect it.
Reporting and analysis from the National News desk in the Breeze in Busan file.
Broadcast data suggested one version of Seoul’s electorate, then had to be corrected after early-voter estimates were found missing from key demographic tables. In Busan, voters sent a different signal: change at city hall, continuity in local administration.
Reporting and analysis from the Opinion desk in the Breeze in Busan file.
Reporting and analysis from the Politics desk in the Breeze in Busan file.
The June 3 local elections show a conservative party burdened by martial law and past presidents, a Democratic Party expanding into the center, and a political system that still gives voters too few exits from hostile camps.
The Reform Party has opened a door into local politics through cheaper campaigns, online screening and digital tools. But youth politics requires more than access. It requires candidate vetting, governing capacity and a public language broad enough to reach beyond a narrow online base.
Reporting and analysis from the Economy desk in the Breeze in Busan file.
The Bank of Korea raised rates as exports and investment strengthened nationally. In Busan, services were growing, but manufacturing, construction orders and several forms of employment were moving in the opposite direction.
Korea is earning heavily from the AI boom, but the gains do not stop at semiconductor profits. They are moving into wages, housing, work schedules, hiring, industrial knowledge and energy infrastructure—at very different speeds and under very different rules.
Reporting and analysis from the Business desk in the Breeze in Busan file.
Oil prices can recover long before tankers, insurers and refiners trust Hormuz again. The result is a costlier energy system built around alternative routes, strategic stocks and contracts designed to survive the next failed ceasefire.
Reporting and analysis from the Sustainability desk in the Breeze in Busan file.
The first nationwide farmland census is designed to expose speculation and misuse. But the harder question begins afterward: who will farm the land, under what terms, and whether it can remain productive in an aging, climate-stressed countryside.
Reporting and analysis from the Technology desk in the Breeze in Busan file.
Reading and writing were cultural technologies long before they became school skills. Print multiplied external memory, smartphones made it constantly reachable, and AI is now moving into the middle of thought itself.
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