Next Sohee Exposes Labor Exploitation And Emotional Stress In The Korean Workplace

At 30, the Busan International Film Festival redefines its global role. BIFF 2025 introduces the Busan Awards, premieres Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, and gathers filmmakers from 64 countries for Asia’s largest film festival.

The city’s annual competition returns to BEXCO, offering exposure for small breweries while raising questions about long-term survival.

South Korea’s far right is less an ideology than a fusion—rooted in Cold War anti-communism, evangelical networks, and borrowed narratives from the U.S. and Japan.

Korea’s southern region is betting on BuTX and new rail links to fight population loss. Evidence, however, shows that transport must be paired with jobs, education, and housing if balanced growth is to be achieved.

The Financial Supervisory Service has sweeping powers over banks, insurers, and securities firms—but little structural responsibility when scandals erupt. The government’s reform plan seeks to fix this imbalance, sparking fierce resistance from within.

Busan’s international stature owes much to South Korea’s rising brand, but Busan’s own governance relies on event-driven spectacles.

The hate rallies in Seoul’s Myeongdong district do not resemble the candlelight vigils that defined Korean democracy. Instead, they echo repertoires seen in Japan and the US.

Busan’s 15-minute city branding contrasts with reality: elderly downtowns, empty homes, and car-dependent Eco-Delta leave proximity as a slogan only.

Since the 1980s, public wholesale markets like Garak have shaped fruit distribution in Korea. Decades later, five corporations control most transactions, operating under licenses rarely challenged.

Raids on Korean workers at Hyundai–LG’s Georgia plant expose the contradiction between U.S. immigration policy and its reshoring agenda.

South Korea is moving to dismantle the Prosecutors’ Office and divide the Finance Ministry, aiming to end two long-standing monopolies of authority.

The city hails a four-month pilot as a national model for AI in administration. Yet the project’s dialect-to-standard feature is hardly novel, while governance and accountability frameworks remain incomplete.