Tuesday, April 20, 2021

From zombie maeul to seed village - from fake startup communities to real Communities-as-a-Startup

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As far as train wrecks go, the demographic ones are the easiest to predict. And Korea 's bullet train is not exactly slowing down. Last...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

After OH Se-hoon's Hangang Renaissance, Who In 2022?

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If both Seoul and Busan delivered landslide victories to PPP candidates, yesterday's by-elections were less a conservative triumph than ...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Ramseyer vs Japan

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J. Mark Ramseyer probably thought he'd get more praise from his sponsors after publishing yet another revisionist piece. All he managed ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Seoul Village Season XV

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At long last we managed to escape from 2020. We're certainly not out of the woods yet: the beast is still striking all over the world, o...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Korean Errlines

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The Korean Air - Asiana Airlines merger would face severe antitrust backlash anywhere, but Korea doesn't seem ready to welcome a foreign...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

With Yoshihide Suga, Nippon Kaigi remains in charge of Japan politics

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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Shinzo ABE is replaced by a man six years older, and even more conservative. The cabinet remains b...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Wonju's Academy Theater

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While Korea keeps mass producing movie theater 'chaebolplexes'*, old landmarks keep disappearing one by one. The very last hidden ...