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The Korean Peninsula Faces Heat, Crop Stress, and Import Risks in 2025

The Korean Peninsula Faces Heat, Crop Stress, and Import Risks in 2025

Global forecasts show 2025 will be one of the hottest summers on record. As glaciers melt and harvests shrink, the link between climate change and food insecurity becomes alarmingly real.

Why Fast Content Feels Right — and Thinking Feels Wrong

Why Fast Content Feels Right — and Thinking Feels Wrong

The Molecular Society: How Flow, Not Causality, Is Redefining Human Intelligence

The Molecular Society: How Flow, Not Causality, Is Redefining Human Intelligence

How Busan Is Using Distributed Energy to Power a New Industrial Era in Gangseo

How Busan Is Using Distributed Energy to Power a New Industrial Era in Gangseo

Why SPC’s Bread Empire Is Built on a Pattern of Preventable Tragedy

Why SPC’s Bread Empire Is Built on a Pattern of Preventable Tragedy

Busan Fishing Village Folk Museum Opens Special Exhibition on Jaecheop Culture

Busan Fishing Village Folk Museum Opens Special Exhibition on Jaecheop Culture

2025 Busan One Asia Festival to Feature Free Park Concert with Popular K-pop Artists

2025 Busan One Asia Festival to Feature Free Park Concert with Popular K-pop Artists

Busan news

How Busan Is Using Distributed Energy to Power a New Industrial Era in Gangseo

How Busan Is Using Distributed Energy to Power a New Industrial Era in Gangseo

As a finalist for Korea’s first Distributed Energy Specialized Area, Busan’s Gangseo District is testing new energy models—including battery storage, virtual net metering, and UPS-as-a-Service—to build a resilient, decentralized urban power system.

Busan Fishing Village Folk Museum Opens Special Exhibition on Jaecheop Culture

Busan Fishing Village Folk Museum Opens Special Exhibition on Jaecheop Culture

2025 Busan One Asia Festival to Feature Free Park Concert with Popular K-pop Artists

2025 Busan One Asia Festival to Feature Free Park Concert with Popular K-pop Artists

Relaxing Loan Regulations Won’t Save Busan’s Real Estate Market

Relaxing Loan Regulations Won’t Save Busan’s Real Estate Market

The 15-Minute City in Busan: Global Urban Ideal Meets Local Urban Limits

The 15-Minute City in Busan: Global Urban Ideal Meets Local Urban Limits

Busan to Host 22nd International Performing Arts Festival from May 23 to June 1

Busan to Host 22nd International Performing Arts Festival from May 23 to June 1

Busan Implements Korea’s First Real-Time Groundwater Monitoring System

Busan Implements Korea’s First Real-Time Groundwater Monitoring System

National News

Why SPC’s Bread Empire Is Built on a Pattern of Preventable Tragedy

Why SPC’s Bread Empire Is Built on a Pattern of Preventable Tragedy

As another fatal accident hits SPC, South Korea's food giant faces growing criticism over its safety record, legal impunity, and ethical blind spots.

K-Melon Rises: How Korea’s Chamoe Is Poised for Global Fruit Fame

K-Melon Rises: How Korea’s Chamoe Is Poised for Global Fruit Fame

SKT Data Breach Shows Why Korea Needs Punitive Damages

SKT Data Breach Shows Why Korea Needs Punitive Damages

Why Sejong Still Isn’t Working

Why Sejong Still Isn’t Working

South Korea Eases Redevelopment Rules Amid Deepening Housing Slump

South Korea Eases Redevelopment Rules Amid Deepening Housing Slump

Hyperloop or Hype? The High-Speed Trap in South Korea’s Transport Vision

Hyperloop or Hype? The High-Speed Trap in South Korea’s Transport Vision

South Korea’s Medical Tourism Surges to Record 1.17 Million Foreign Patients in 2024

South Korea’s Medical Tourism Surges to Record 1.17 Million Foreign Patients in 2024

Opinion

The Molecular Society: How Flow, Not Causality, Is Redefining Human Intelligence

The Molecular Society: How Flow, Not Causality, Is Redefining Human Intelligence

What happens when society stops running on rules and starts reacting like a molecule? Explore the collapse of causality, the rise of interpretive humans, and why sensing flows — not storing facts — is now the key to intelligence.

Northbound: Why Busan’s Arctic Future Matters More Than Ever

Northbound: Why Busan’s Arctic Future Matters More Than Ever

The Future of National Sovereignty Lies in Securing Digital Identity Infrastructure

The Future of National Sovereignty Lies in Securing Digital Identity Infrastructure

When Politics Stops Thinking

When Politics Stops Thinking

When a Society Forgets Why It Exists

When a Society Forgets Why It Exists

Why South Korea’s New Towns Feel Lifeless: The Psychological Failures of Urban Planning

Why South Korea’s New Towns Feel Lifeless: The Psychological Failures of Urban Planning

Coupang’s Retail Dominance: A Threat to Small Businesses or a New Retail Era?

Coupang’s Retail Dominance: A Threat to Small Businesses or a New Retail Era?

Economy

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Managing Household Debt in South Korea Through the Third-Phase DSR Policy

Why Korea’s Fiscal Stimulus No Longer Works—and What to Do Next

The Ethics of Control: Can CBDCs Uphold Freedom in a Digital Age?

Currency as Strategy: Why South Korea Must Lead the Next Financial Order

South Korea’s ‘Disengaged Workforce’ Hits Record High

Politics

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South Korea Is Growing Older, Colder, and More Disconnected

Trump, North Korea, and the New Balance: Rewriting the Peninsula in an Era of U.S.–China Rivalry

High Risk, Low Return: The Trap Behind Alaska’s LNG Deal

The Broken Promise of U.S. Manufacturing Revival

Why the Far-Right Rises from Capitalism’s Shadows

Business

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South Korea Faces Retail Real Estate Crunch as Vacancies Surge in Urban Districts

South Korea's Food Inflation: Economic Pressures Challenge Consumers and Small Restaurants

The Republic of Franchises: Where Every Meal Tastes the Same

The Rise of Franchises and the Fall of Korea’s Independent Bakeries

When Healthcare Becomes a Hashtag: The Ethics of K-Medical Exports