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How High-Rise Redevelopment Changed Busan’s Streets

Transit access improved along Busan’s main corridors, but adjacent redevelopment failed to translate those gains into stronger street-level conditions.

6 min read

Why the Market Didn’t Punish Coupang

A data breach affecting more than 33 million accounts failed to drive users away from Coupang, revealing how speed has become the default condition of everyday consumption.

7 min read

The Two Lives of Korean Food

Ultra-processed foods carry Korea’s culinary identity across borders, while the traditional meals that built its reputation fade from daily life. The marketplace moves quickly; health follows slowly behind.

18 min read

Why Busan’s Urban Plans Keep Failing on the Hills

For years, Busan has tried to revive its old hillside districts with small lifts, monorails, and planning models borrowed from flat cities. None of them have worked. The terrain—steep, fragmented, and rapidly aging—keeps breaking the plans long before they reach the ground.

17 min read

What the Oceans Ministry’s Move Reveals About Sujeong-dong

The temporary headquarters sit between the station corridor and a hillside district marked by steep terrain, aging housing and long-standing redevelopment constraints.

12 min read

Busan Builds a Smart City as Its Estuary Unravels

A smart-city district on the Nakdonggang River sits on land that once buffered Korea’s largest estuary. Its construction reveals how a national water corporation became a developer.

26 min read

South Korea Confronts a Digital Infrastructure It No Longer Fully Controls

Foreign-operated satellite networks, major data breaches and a government data-centre failure reveal how essential Korean services now depend on systems outside national authority, pushing operational sovereignty to the centre of Seoul’s policy agenda.

13 min read

Behind Busan’s Tourism Milestone, a City Losing Its Footing

Visitor growth has surged past 3 million, yet population loss, rising vacancy and weakening urban life reveal a deeper challenge.

18 min read

Busan’s Renewable Shortfall

Busan produces far more electricity than it uses, yet less than one terawatt-hour comes from renewable sources. Physical limits, stalled offshore plans and rising industrial demand leave Busan with no large-scale path to expand clean power.

10 min read

Sacheon Hosts the Space Agency, but Seoul Still Makes the Decisions

Korea placed its headquarters in the south, but authority, engineering and launch operations remain divided. Without structural change, the new hub cannot guide the national program.

12 min read

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.

11 min read

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.

4 min read

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