“When Life Gives You Tangerines”: A Korean Elegy on Love, Loss, and Language
A slow-burning masterpiece from Jeju Island, Tangerines turns silence into poetry and grief into memory — a global story told in dialect.
Maru Kim
BOF 2025: Can a K-Pop Festival Redefine Busan’s Global Image?
As Busan prepares to host the 2025 One Asia Festival, the city is betting on music and spectacle to reinvent its post-industrial identity and stake its claim as a global cultural hub.
Busan’s Empty House Projects: A Real Solution or Symbolic Fix?
Busan City has launched a new initiative to convert vacant homes into micro-dorms and public parks. But as critics point out, meaningful urban change requires more than scattered projects — it demands a systemic approach to life, work, and community.
High Risk, Low Return: The Trap Behind Alaska’s LNG Deal
The Alaska LNG pipeline promises energy cooperation but delivers long-term carbon liability and fiscal exposure. With a climate bill potentially reaching $5 trillion, Korea must see the deal for what it is: a trap, not a partnership.
Quantum vs. Photonic: Two Futures, One Question
As photonic and quantum systems redefine the limits of computation, they also pose a deeper question: What kind of thinking should our machines inherit — accelerated versions of our own, or entirely new forms beyond human logic?
When Politics Stops Thinking
In an age where machines evolve, politics recycles. South Korea — hyper-modern yet ideologically static — reveals how education, elitism, and language can converge to stall democratic imagination.
The Return of Royal Spirits: Jongmyo Shrine Reopens After Five-Year Restoration
After five years of meticulous restoration, Jongmyo Shrine reopens its gates. On April 20, ancestral tablets of Joseon kings and queens will return in a historic royal procession — the first in over a century — rekindling Korea’s enduring dialogue with its royal past.