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Trump brought an Iran ceasefire to the G7, but the summit exposed a wider order of dependence: Hormuz energy routes, European mistrust, Korean shipyards and African mineral value.

Overseas, Netflix’s Teach You a Lesson looks like an anti-bullying revenge drama. In South Korea, it has become a sharper policy question: how to protect teachers without reviving the old machinery of corporal punishment.

A dome at North Port could fit Busan’s maritime-capital agenda, but its value will depend on whether cruise passengers, KTX arrivals, baseball fans and concertgoers leave spending and movement in the old downtown.

Busan’s new Maritime and International Commercial Court gives the city a formal place in Korea’s maritime justice system. Turning that court into a legal forum will depend on whether cargo flows can become case flows.

Broadcast data suggested one version of Seoul’s electorate, then had to be corrected after early-voter estimates were found missing from key demographic tables. In Busan, voters sent a different signal: change at city hall, continuity in local administration.

Excerpt The lower Nakdonggang River is already showing early-season algae pressure before Busan reaches the hottest weeks of summer. The warning ties together warmer nights, Jangma runoff, upstream nutrients and the city’s drinking-water system.

Smart apartment apps in Korea are moving beyond notices and management fees into doors, parking, visitors, biometrics and administrator systems — turning convenience at the threshold of home into a new privacy test.

Busan is drawing more foreign travelers as K-culture pushes tourism beyond Seoul. The BTS weekend shows where the city still has to earn that attention: airport access, lodging stability, late-night transport, local maps, payments and the smaller routines that turn a visit into a return.

Busan’s global strategy should be judged by retention, not recruitment. The city needs to measure who stays, who leaves and why the path between arrival and belonging remains fragile.

The shortage did not prove vote manipulation. It showed that an election system can lose public confidence when voters arrive and the state has not prepared the ballot.

South Korea’s won remains weak despite large current-account surpluses and strong semiconductor exports. The pressure now runs through overseas investment, oil costs, U.S. yields, foreign equity selling and the domestic cost of rate defense.

Jeon Jae-soo’s transition team is expected to focus on livelihood relief and maritime capital while reviewing key Park-era projects. The deeper question is how Busan City Hall will reorganize offices, budgets and inherited commitments.