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Busan’s catch is dominated by small mackerel even as some buyers need larger fish. Korea exports frozen mackerel to West Africa while Norwegian imports grow costlier. What a fish is worth depends on where it is caught, how it is sold—and whether it is left to grow.

AI weather forecasts can capture where rain will fall while underestimating its heaviest bursts. Research in South Korea and Europe reveals why the difference matters.

Busan’s biennale faces questions of artistic judgment and institutional care. A BIFF project-market selection returns as a finished film, while the city’s new concert hall draws crowds. What endures beyond the event itself?

From 2015 to 2023, registered businesses grew near Pusan National University Station as new business starts fell. In Hadan, vacancy rates varied sharply between survey districts. Busan’s new investments meet university streets with different commercial histories.

A rescue net guided Bukangi toward the sea, but the dusky shark returned to Busan’s North Port canal. Her familiar appearances offered no clear answer to why she stayed—or whether another rescue would help.

“Busan Is Good” now reaches public transport, city institutions and local businesses. As Busan considers a change, the larger issue is whether its civic identity can outlast a mayor’s term.

Water, sunlight, safe landing terrain, communications and power do not naturally coincide near the lunar south pole. The next phase of lunar industry will depend on whether infrastructure can connect those conditions reliably enough for later missions to carry less from Earth.

Busan spent decades building a water system that can absorb major failures. Now it must renew aging transmission mains and rebuild four water treatment plants without losing the reliability that investment created.

South Korea says Kyiv broke a confidentiality understanding when Zelensky revealed the transfer of two North Korean POWs. The dispute exposes the limits of Ukraine’s wartime pressure on Seoul.

AI demand is forcing memory makers to decide how scarce DRAM capacity is divided among HBM, server memory and other products before new fabs arrive—pushing allocation decisions into customer contracts, factory investment and AI-system design.

Gyeongnam’s pine-wilt outbreak has grown beyond a tree-removal problem. As reported occurrence passed 1.15 million, warmer transmission conditions, an extensive pine landscape and mass forest conversion began reshaping how southeastern Korea manages its forests.

Two empty commercial spaces exposed to the same broader economy can have very different prospects for reuse. In Busan, the difference can lie in tenant fit, conversion costs and whether the property can be changed for the next viable use.