Editorial credential
Busan / Korea
Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Breeze in Busan
Busan, South Korea
Maru Kim leads Breeze in Busan and reports on the institutions, industries and public decisions reshaping Busan and South Korea.
Reporting focus
How budgets, housing and public institutions shape everyday urban life.
The ownership, incentives and public consequences behind industrial policy.
Ports, fisheries and the systems connecting Busan to the wider region.
What national announcements establish—and what the available record does not.
Current journalism
The newest reporting, with recent work drawn across distinct desks where the published record allows.
Psychology
What Yong Hye-in’s nomination reveals about political representation, fairness and perceived hypocrisy—and how citizens form judgments when direct evidence of governing competence remains limited.
Latest published reporting
Opinion
The U.S. once constrained South Korea’s nuclear fuel cycle over real proliferation risks. As Seoul seeks greater uranium-enrichment latitude, those old rules now face a different Korea, a different fuel market and a changing American nuclear policy.
Sustainability
South Korea reported an 87 percent drop in aquaculture losses from high water temperatures in 2025. But data from major black rockfish farming waters show that local heat exposure, early harvest and emergency releases changed alongside farm protection.
Economy
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.
On reporting
“The useful question is often the distance between what was announced and what can actually be established.”
Full archive
1,209 published stories
Psychology
What Yong Hye-in’s nomination reveals about political representation, fairness and perceived hypocrisy—and how citizens form judgments when direct evidence of governing competence remains limited.
Opinion
The U.S. once constrained South Korea’s nuclear fuel cycle over real proliferation risks. As Seoul seeks greater uranium-enrichment latitude, those old rules now face a different Korea, a different fuel market and a changing American nuclear policy.
Sustainability
South Korea reported an 87 percent drop in aquaculture losses from high water temperatures in 2025. But data from major black rockfish farming waters show that local heat exposure, early harvest and emergency releases changed alongside farm protection.
Opinion
Busan has secured a permanent center of national maritime administration at North Port. The harder task is ensuring that the ministry’s spending, decision-making, and daily activity reach the older neighborhoods behind Busan Station.
Economy
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.
Business
Korea’s AI strategy is publicly financed but largely operated through private companies and foreign technology. The decisive issue is what authority remains with the public after the money is spent.
Opinion
South Korea has spent more than two decades building smart cities around digital infrastructure, public transport, environmental systems and urban data. As the country enters the K-AI City era, Songdo, Sejong and western Busan show why the hardest urban problems begin where project boundaries end.
Busan
Busan has spent years shortening planning procedures and expanding incentives, but construction costs, financing, contractor risk and uneven housing demand are increasingly deciding which projects can actually move forward.