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Features Team

The Features Team produces in-depth, long-form stories, offering thorough investigations and narratives on issues that impact societies worldwide, beyond the headlines.

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84 Publications

The Coupang Breach and the Structure That Drives Platforms Toward Harm

The breach at Coupang revealed how deeply South Korea’s daily life depends on private platforms whose influence now resembles public infrastructure—without the oversight that infrastructure requires.

Dec 2, 202511 min read

By Features Team

Branding Won’t Save Busan

Busan’s tourism corridors stay full, yet the city continues to lose its young. Behind the bright surface lie weakened industries, vanished headquarters, and a labour market no branding campaign can repair.

Nov 28, 202513 min read

By Features Team

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.

Nov 25, 202518 min read

By Features Team

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.

Nov 23, 202515 min read

By Features Team

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.

Nov 20, 202517 min read

By Features Team

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.

Nov 20, 20256 min read

By Features Team