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Busan is investing in high-tech fulfillment centers with promises of jobs and growth. But behind the numbers, labor is becoming more fragile, fragmented—and increasingly invisible.

Busan has been selected as South Korea’s exclusive nominee to host the 2026 UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting, following a final round of evaluation that saw the port city narrowly surpass Jeju.

In a world of infinite content, we are seeing fewer perspectives. As AI curates our lives, critical thinking, intellectual diversity, and even empathy are quietly slipping away.

Busan’s arts education system is facing a crisis, compounded by the collapse of private universities.

In South Korea, the gender divide among Gen Z voters has become a central axis of political life. What other democracies are facing as a drift, Korea is living as a rupture—one amplified by grievance politics and a radicalizing digital ecosystem.

When a third element enters a system — in science, in thought, in selfhood — the world no longer behaves predictably.

South Korea’s elite public institutions still select power-holders through closed pipelines and test scores. Can democracy survive without reform?

KRW-pegged stablecoins could soon reward Koreans for walking, learning, and creating — if lawmakers and the Bank of Korea align on regulation.