Gangnam is no longer a district defined simply by affluence. Reconstruction, education, transportation, commercial activity, public safety and population aging now overlap in ways that make local governance more complex than the district’s image suggests. For Jeon Won-geun, a preliminary Democratic

With South Korea’s June 3 local elections approaching, races for municipal leadership across the country are gathering pace. Candidates are rolling out pledges on development, transport, housing, welfare and public safety, underscoring the electoral weight of bread-and-butter urban issues. Among the

By Jino Kim, PhDCEO, CoreDIT (jokim1201@coredit.co.kr)Industrial transitions are not driven by technology alone. They take hold when new operating models emerge that resolve the structural limits of existing systems. Just as steam engines reshaped logistics and internal combustion engines transforme

The phrase “technology is art” is no longer merely metaphorical. Today, artificial intelligence can calculate composition, colour, and texture to produce images more precise than those created by humans. In terms of technical completion alone, it has already surpassed human capability in many areas.

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The latest Middle East tensions are sharpening a question that LNG importers can no longer avoid: not how much fuel they can buy, but how much of it they can still bring home when shipping routes, prices and geopolitics come under strain. For South Korea, that distinction is becoming more consequent

BERLIN — The International News Media Association(INMA) said on March 26 that its 2026 World Congress of News Media in Berlin had sold out 39 days before opening, marking the first time in the organisation’s 96-year history that the annual gathering has reached full capacity ahead of the event. The

Series Index1. Solar Power as a Strategic National Industry2. Global Competition in the Solar Industry3. Understanding the Economics of Solar Power4. The Technology Race in Solar Cells5. Space Solar Power and the Energy Strategy of 2035 By Park Sang-Nam,CEO, Global Consulting Corp (hgradf@naver.com)

The race to expand satellite networks is beginning to expose a second bottleneck beyond orbital crowding: radio spectrum. As satellite filings multiply and RF congestion worsens, interference is becoming a more serious constraint for Earth observation, communications and scientific research.That is

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The Ministry of SMEs and Startups(MSS)’ decision to select 100 firms for the second round of its Jump-Up program may look, at first glance, like another routine support measure. It is not. What matters here is not the number of companies chosen, but the policy logic behind the selection.For years, K

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While the market’s attention has largely focused on regulatory developments surrounding XRP, the more consequential issue may now lie beyond them. Now that legal ambiguity is beginning to clear, the question is no longer whether institutions can consider XRP. Rather, the question is whether it can w

By Shin Hanho, PhD As US airstrikes on Iran enter their third week, the conflict is taking on the character of a protracted war of attrition rather than a short, decisive campaign. Without the deployment of ground forces, a “complete victory” will be difficult to achieve. The more consequential issu

Hanbok is not a relic of the past, but an asset of Korean cultural civilization—reinterpreted within modern fashion and digital culture through the aesthetics of line, color, and negative space.Series Overview 1. Why Now, K-Culture?2. The DNA of Tradition: The Roots of K-Culture3. From Hanbok to Hig

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Semiconductors and electricity are often cited as the key variables in the global race for artificial intelligence. But as data center expansion accelerates, another resource is moving to the center of industrial strategy: water.According to the United Nations, nearly half of the world’s population

As regulatory pressure grows around supply chain transparency, sustainability, and product traceability, The Hashgraph Group is seeking to position itself as an enterprise technology partner rather than a crypto-native platform story. In a written interview with Korea IT Times, Pawel Sobczak, VP of

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