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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

How Coupang’s Crisis Response Undermined Public Trust in Korea

The controversy surrounding Coupang’s data breach highlights how crisis responses designed to limit legal risk can generate broader regulatory and political consequences when public process is sidelined.

December 31, 20257 min read

Busan’s Skyline and the Vanishing Horizon

Busan’s skyline grows higher each year, promising beauty and prosperity. But behind the towers lies a quieter truth — a city losing its landscape, its rhythm, and its memory.

October 28, 202522 min read

Busan Expands West but the Delta Pushes Back

As Busan pushes its urban frontier into the Nakdonggang River delta, its grand plans collide with the slow physics of mud, water, and distance. The city’s westward expansion promises connection, but the land still speaks in the language of resistance.

October 24, 202510 min read

Busan Faces the Real Test of Korea’s Digital Transition

South Korea’s digital ambitions are growing faster than its power grid. As global capital pivots toward energy infrastructure, Busan stands at the intersection of innovation and inertia — a city with the assets to lead, but still searching for the power to sustain its future.

October 6, 202512 min read

From Port Core to Western Frontier: How Busan Keeps Shifting

Only a third of Busan is flat land. Mountains split districts, rivers divide east and west. Within these limits, transit always trails growth — and decline moves faster than rails.

September 30, 20258 min read

Compressed Modernity and Generational Fragmentation in South Korea

In the West, Millennials born a decade apart share one category. In Korea, the same gap marks entirely different worlds — PC cafés versus smartphones, protest politics versus algorithmic feeds. Compressed modernization made adolescence, not age, the true fault line of generational identity.

September 26, 202515 min read