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The Editorial Team ensures high-quality journalism, overseeing content creation with a focus on accuracy, clarity, and the global impact of local stories.

Gyeongnam’s Pine-Wilt Surge Is Forcing a Shift From Tree Removal to Forest Management

Gyeongnam’s Pine-Wilt Surge Is Forcing a Shift From Tree Removal to Forest Management

Gyeongnam’s pine-wilt outbreak has grown beyond a tree-removal problem. As reported occurrence passed 1.15 million, warmer transmission conditions, an extensive pine landscape and mass forest conversion began reshaping how southeastern Korea manages its forests.

Busan’s Young-Adult Migration Turns Sharply at 25–29

Busan’s Young-Adult Migration Turns Sharply at 25–29

Busan can still draw young adults into the city, but keeping them becomes far harder in their late twenties, when university gives way to deeper decisions about work, career and where to live.

What Lee Jae Myung Thinks a Minister Can Fix

What Lee Jae Myung Thinks a Minister Can Fix

President Lee Jae Myung says reform should be judged by results rather than confrontation. His latest cabinet choices offer a test of that doctrine: whether changing the person in charge can actually change the institutions beneath them.

The Korean Peninsula Trump Is Returning To

The Korean Peninsula Trump Is Returning To

Another Trump-Kim summit would unfold on a peninsula where North Korea is harder to isolate, U.S. military priorities are increasingly global and South Korea is seeking greater authority over the defense of its own state.

What Makes a North Korea Policy Survive a Change of Government?

What Makes a North Korea Policy Survive a Change of Government?

From Kaesong to military agreements, South Korea’s history shows why some North Korea policies survive changes of government while others fail. Lee Jae Myung’s new coexistence policy now faces the same test.

Where Korea’s AI Windfall Goes

Where Korea’s AI Windfall Goes

South Korea is earning extraordinary income from the hardware behind the AI boom. Following the money through corporate profits, household portfolios, property, debt and the workplace reveals why that success has yet to produce broad-based prosperity.

After the Ministry and Shipping Lines Moved, Will the Maritime Economy Follow?

After the Ministry and Shipping Lines Moved, Will the Maritime Economy Follow?

Busan has concentrated maritime administration, shipping companies, public finance and research. Its next test is whether finance, insurance, shipbroking, law and data can turn proximity into recurring business.