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How Busan Built Its Waterfront Identity Around Seven Bridges

The city’s 52-kilometer coastal belt connects seven bridges from Gadeok to Haeundae. The view is unified, but toll roads, freight traffic and limited walkways still shape how residents move along the shoreline.

December 1, 20254 min read

Gadeokdo Airport’s New 106-Month Schedule and the Unseen Technical Constraints

Weak soils, deep water and coastal storms continue to complicate Gadeokdo Airport’s development, raising long-term engineering and financial questions for South Korea.

November 25, 202518 min read

Suyeong Bay’s 40-Year Drift from Public Maritime Vision to Private Vertical Enclave

Suyeong Bay’s long journey from civic maritime district to high-rise enclave reveals how incremental decisions, not grand plans, are reshaping Busan’s urban economy.

November 23, 202515 min read

Polestar Turns to Busan as Chinese Manufacturing Faces Western Scrutiny

Polestar’s financial constraints, narrowing U.S. product lineup, and exposure to evolving policy regulations make Busan a necessary adjustment rather than an expansionary move.

November 22, 20255 min read

A City Full of Activity, Empty of Future

Busan presents a striking contradiction: a city saturated with innovation programs, workation zones and startup hubs, yet steadily losing the people and industries that once defined its strength. Its quiet unravelling reveals the deeper limits of South Korea’s activity-driven regional policy.

November 20, 202517 min read

Busan Confronts the Limits of Its Research Capacity in the AI Era

Despite producing thousands of engineering and science graduates each year, Busan struggles to retain them. Limited research positions, fragmented data systems, and thin institutional depth leave the city at a disadvantage as AI reshapes national competitiveness.

November 20, 20256 min read

Workation Was Never an Industry—So Why Do Some Still Pretend It Is?

In a city losing both its young people and its industrial core, the revival of the remote-work storyline reads less like analysis and more like wishful thinking.

November 17, 20257 min read

Eco Delta’s Launch Shows a National Smart-City Vision Reduced to Apartment Gadgets

Busan’s Eco Delta project, a 5.6-trillion-won national smart-city initiative, opened with a showcase of basic residential robots rather than the integrated urban systems it once promised.

November 17, 20254 min read

Why Busan’s New Subway Kept Breaking the Ground

A string of collapses along the Sasang–Hadan Line reveals a project pushed through fragile ground with incomplete cutoff, improvised sequencing, and oversight too fragmented to detect the warnings forming beneath the surface.

November 14, 202522 min read

Busan and Gyeongnam Seek Unity Amid Growing Divides

Calls for a Busan–Gyeongnam merger echo the rhetoric of regional revitalization but overlook its cause — the hollowing of local autonomy. Without stronger local leadership and fiscal independence, integration may simply redraw the map without changing the reality.

November 12, 202512 min read

Development Pressures Erode the Sanctity of the UN Memorial Park

Busan’s plan to lift height limits near the UN Cemetery aims at “rational regeneration” but exposes a deeper paradox—growth without renewal.

November 11, 20255 min read

Busan to Introduce Full Free Childcare for Ages 3–5 from 2026

Busan will implement full free childcare for children aged three to five beginning in 2026, eliminating all remaining out-of-pocket costs for parents and extending new benefits to foreign-national families.

November 10, 20254 min read

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