Domestic Challenges and Attitudes Towards Foreign Nationals
Anxiety around rising property prices affects people’s attitudes towards Chinese nationals and their economic activities in Korea.
A Growing Workers’ Coalition
Workers of different South Korean industries are joining forces to protest shared concerns around increasingly difficult working conditions.
How to Build a Competitive Streaming Platform
Korea’s entertainment industry has to transition to becoming a platform that aggregates data but faces numerous challenges competing against foreign giants.
Sensitivity to Inequality Reflected in Academic Anxiety
Korean society’s anxiety over socioeconomic inequality comes through in concerns over a widening education attainment gap.
Public Anxiety Around National Debt
Growing opposition to another round of stimulus payments for COVID-19 relief reflects the public’s concern over national debt.
Who Benefits from Korea’s Creativity?
Experts urge South Korea to level the playing field with multinational streaming platforms by focusing on protecting the rights of Korean content creators.
Migrants Seen As Economic Instruments
The Korean government’s myopic focus on relieving labor shortages does nothing to improve its treatment of migrant workers.
Korea’s Food Exports Reach New Highs
Driven by pandemic-induced demand, Korea enjoyed the largest-ever increase in food exports (14.6%) despite an overall decrease in sales abroad.
Local Autonomy Carries Growing Responsibilities
Local governments’ approach to addressing public health concerns run into conflict with the nation’s foreign policy goals.
Data protection concerns exacerbated by lack of communication
The government is helping AI developers by providing them with publicly collected data without communicating this effort to the public.