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Busan’s MyBusan Portal Raises Questions About AI Imagery

Busan City’s new foreign resident portal uses AI-generated human imagery on official guidance pages without disclosure, highlighting a regulatory grey zone as South Korea’s AI Basic Act takes effect.

February 3, 20268 min read

When Housing Holds and Life Retreats

Elementary schools remain open in Seoul’s most expensive districts even as births fall. In Busan, rising property values coincide with school closures—revealing how South Korea’s cities manage demographic decline through exclusion and fragmentation.

February 2, 20266 min read

The Road Moves First as Busan’s New Airport Remains Unbuilt

An access highway breaks ground on a fixed timeline while the offshore airport project stalls amid failed bids and unresolved risk.

February 2, 20262 min read

Busan and Gyeongnam Challenge Seoul’s Fast-Track Integration Plan

As Seoul pushes fast-track consolidation with financial incentives, Busan and Gyeongnam insist on referendums and statutory guarantees, exposing a deeper conflict over power, timing, and political risk.

January 29, 20269 min read

Trump Uses Tariff Threats to Pressure South Korea Investment Deal

President Donald Trump warned that tariffs on South Korean exports could be raised without taking formal policy action. The warning shifted attention to how compliance under a long-term investment agreement is judged, with tariff pressure applied through interpretation rather than enforcement.

January 28, 20265 min read

The Structural Split Between Seoul and Busan’s Housing Markets

The widening gap between Seoul and Busan is not a temporary price divergence, but the outcome of two housing markets that now operate under different structural logics.

January 27, 202610 min read

How Autonomous BRT Is Redefining Accessibility in Busan

A late-night autonomous BRT service in Busan highlights a broader shift in urban mobility: from extending networks to sustaining everyday access in aging, post-industrial cities.

January 26, 20268 min read

Busan’s Infrastructure Expansion in an Era of Demographic Decline

Busan’s future will be determined not by how quickly vehicles cross the city, but by whether urban policy allows life to take root where the roads no longer stop.

January 25, 20265 min read

150 Years After Opening, Busan Reveals the Port–City Paradox

Busan’s port thrives, but modern maritime value is captured elsewhere — and without command functions, logistics cannot sustain a city.

January 23, 202611 min read

The End of Functional Labor

When functional competence becomes abundant, markets reprice labor around the scarce ability to bear risk, authorize outcomes, and justify decisions. In the AI economy, the bottleneck is not production but approval.

January 22, 202614 min read

AI Is Changing Study Faster Than Schools Can Adapt

Generative AI has entered students’ daily routines, but exams, curricula, and national policy remain anchored in pre-AI assumptions.

January 22, 202613 min read

The Age of Conditional Alliances

Postwar stability functioned as an insurance system financed by the United States and anchored by its industrial base.

January 21, 202610 min read

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