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Busan Is Running, but It No Longer Circulates

Busan’s decline isn’t collapse — it’s stillness. A gradual slowing of motion, a city alive but not living.

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South Korea’s Missing Middle Finds a Name in Busan’s Kkiin Generation Plan

Busan’s ₩91.8 billion “Kkiin Generation” plan targets adults aged 35–55 — Korea’s first policy to name the missing middle. Behind the term lies a deeper crisis: educated, unmarried, digital-era midlifers caught between welfare systems built for families and firms.

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Dalmajigil and the Misreading of Busan’s “15-Minute City”

On a hillside where cars crawl and pedestrians cling to the curb, Busan’s vision of the “15-Minute City” meets its physical limit. Dalmajigil Park promises harmony between nature and culture — but exposes how proximity, without mobility, remains only a slogan.

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Busan’s Real Estate Faith and the Hollowing of Industry

From ministry relocations to design-city branding, Busan keeps rebuilding its skyline without rebuilding its base. The city’s revival remains rhetorical—a choreography of anticipation where belief replaces productivity and motion stands in for progress.

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Busan’s Nakdonggang River Parks Capture the Colors of Autumn

Autumn paints Busan’s Nakdonggang River parks in gold, white and pink as fields of cosmos, buckwheat and pink muhly bloom under a carefully managed ecological plan.

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Busan’s Bright Facade and Its Deepening Divide

Busan’s skyline gleams, but its economy tells a quieter story — one of slow consumption, aging demographics, and unbalanced growth.

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The Politics of Banners in Busan Becomes a Battle for the Skyline

Across South Korea’s southern coast, thousands of political banners drape the city of Busan. What began as expression has turned into pollution — and a test of how democracy occupies public space.

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Hydrogen BuTX Faces an Uncertain Future in Busan

Busan’s ₩4.8 trillion BuTX project promises a transport revolution, but untested hydrogen rail, fragile finances, and geology raise doubts.

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Why Busan Is More Sensitive to Jeonse Loans and Interest Rates Than Seoul

Tighter jeonse loans and elevated rates expose Busan’s housing fragility. Monthly rent now dominates, revealing structural inequality versus Seoul.

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Shakespeare’s First Folio and Literary Treasures Arrive in Busan

The Busan Museum launches Secrets of the Masters, presenting 137 works from Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Woolf, and Rowling. The exhibition runs from September 30, 2025, to January 18, 2026.

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Busan’s Glocal Picks Ignore Maritime Strength

The Ministry of Education’s Glocal University program promised innovation. In Busan, it produced three designated projects centered on cultural branding and enrollment drives, not maritime engineers or energy specialists. The question now is whether these models can survive once subsidies run out.

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Sea Art Festival 2025 Returns to Busan’s Dadaepo Beach After Six Years

The Sea Art Festival reopens at Dadaepo Beach with 38 artists from 17 countries, exploring ecology and memory along the Nakdonggang River estuary.

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