Why it mattersChina is the world's biggest carbon emitter and largest renewable builder, so whether its clean power actually displaces coal shapes the gl…
China is using its vast wind and solar fleet at barely half capacity because its grid is still built around coal contracts.
Read MoreWhy it mattersThe fight over Homeplus is a high-profile test of how South Korea handles private-equity ownership of major employers, an issue echoing deb…
Korea's largest labor federation says 37 Homeplus store closures will cost about 20,000 jobs.
Read MoreWhy it mattersSouth Korea's hyper-competitive education system is among the most extreme in the world, and the medical pushback against starting it in in…
A Korean child psychiatrist warns that pushing toddlers into early academics can leave them emotionally fragile as teenagers.
Read MoreWhy it mattersIt is a concrete test of how far governments can compel global platforms like Google and Meta to filter content at the point of upload, and…
From July, platforms like Google, Naver and Kakao must block illegal spycam photos in Korea, drawing censorship claims.
Read MoreWhy it mattersSouth Korea is a wealthy, highly educated economy, yet a generation of its young people is sliding into debt-driven insolvency — a warning …
A Korean lawyer's new book argues that rising youth bankruptcy reflects a broken system, not reckless spending.
Read MoreWhy it mattersTransit data offers a hard, measurable read on how the pandemic permanently reshaped urban behavior—and Seoul, one of the world's most subw…
Seoul's after-midnight subway ridership fell nearly 24% from 2019 to 2025 as post-pandemic habits curb the city's nightlife.
Read MoreWhy it mattersThe book's argument — that extremism spreads through culture before politics — helps explain a wave of far-right mobilization that has surf…
A sociologist argues the far right recruits through coffee, clothes and memes — a thesis newly relevant in South Korea.
Read MoreWhy it mattersAs AI automates more white-collar and service work worldwide, the question of which human skills remain irreplaceable is increasingly urgen…
A new book argues 'connective labor' — work that reads human emotion — is the one job AI can't replace.
Read MoreWhy it mattersSouth Korea is often cited globally as a model of clean, efficient elections, so an administrative failure that fuels fraud conspiracy theo…
Ballot shortages at Seoul polling stations on June 3 triggered voting halts, a chairman's resignation, and protests by election-fraud activists.
Read MoreWhy it mattersOne of the world's leading AI developers is publicly arguing the entire industry, including itself, is moving too fast to stay in control &…
Anthropic asked AI labs worldwide to weigh slowing development, warning systems may soon improve themselves without human oversight.
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