Third time lucky for a candidate determined to disrupt the young democracy’s two-party system South Korea’s Green Party has won its first-ever local council seat in the mid-eastern city of...
An investigation into foreign labour on the country’s oyster farms reveals how illegal brokers are profiting off exploitation. In South Korea, where half of the population resides in the Seoul metropolitan...
Incheon’s Chinatown looks like a fun day out – but culture researcher Park Mi-Sook argues it’s one of the most revealing sites in Korea for understanding how the state has...
Fifteen years after Masan, Jinhae and Changwon were merged into a single “megacity”, residents still grapple with the loss of their local identities and autonomy “Everything was taken away, even...
The collapse of the long-term lease system has left many Koreans exposed to unexpected risks. In an interview with Slow News, Choi Kyung-ho discusses how social housing might change that....
A professor discusses the cost for one of Korea’s key industries. Professor Lee Ho-geun an automotive engineering academic at Daedeok University gives his assessment of the possible impact of the...
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