By Jung Yeon-Tae,President of the Korea Information Service of the Construction Industry and Essayist.Housing prices in Seoul show little sign of stabilizing. The government has repeatedly introduced stronger lending regulations, adjustments to property holding and capital gains taxes, and expanded

Series Index1- Humanoid Civilization Shift Driven by Physical AI: The Emergence of “i-Human (AI-Human) Productivity.”2- Human Reallocation: Laborers Disappear, Leaving “Architects” and “Governors.”3- The Essential Conditions for Humanoids: System Requirements for Power, Safety, Autonomy, and Control

Washington’s latest U.S.–Canada friction point is not a tariff line or a pipeline—it’s a border crossing.Trump said he is prepared to prevent the bridge’s opening between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, unless Ottawa enters immediate negotiations and agrees the United States should receive

Series IndexPart 1 | When AI Enters the Classroom, What Choice Will Korean Education Make?Part 2 | AI Has Broken Korea’s School AssessmentsPart 3 | Why Korea Needs a New Framework Act on Education in the AI EraPart 4 I In an Era Where Students Learn First, What Should the Classroom Do? By Jung Yeon-

As agentic AI moves into a phase where it can execute work—not just assist with it—the shock to the software industry is beginning not with features, but with how software is priced. The market’s argument is straightforward: companies are increasingly paying not for “software to use,” but for work t

Series IndexPart 1 | Attorney Hong Seung-kwon: “AI Arrives in the Legal Profession”Part 2 | How Should Lawyers Use AI?Part 3 | Dividing Roles Between AI and LawyersPart 4 | AI Legal Advice Isn’t Enough—Here’s Why Lawyers Still Matter By Hong Seung-kwonPrincipal Attorney, PAN Law Firm (skh@law-pan.co

The AI race is no longer only about models; it’s about who funds compute, who controls chips, and who keeps services running. What looks like a technology story is now a capital-cycle story, a compliance story, and a supply-chain geography story—plus a resilience story as cyber incidents hit the mid

When policy stops moving together, markets stop pricing the world as a single macro story. The change is not cosmetic: it rewires how capital moves across borders, how currencies behave, and how investors interpret “global liquidity.”The first signal is visible in rates.A policy cycle that once felt

The Treaty VacuumOn Feb. 6, 2026, at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, the United States accused China of conducting a covert, yield-producing nuclear test on June 22, 2020, alleging techniques designed to reduce detectability. International monitoring bodies reported no detection consistent

By Jung Yeon-Tae,President of the Korea Information Service of the Construction Industry and Essayist.Assumptions for the Analysis — Establishing an Accurate Baseline for Seoul’s Housing Tenure StructureAny discussion of Seoul’s housing policy must begin by fixing one basic reference point: the prec

Technology shares could remain turbulent in the months ahead as investors reassess how quickly artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics of software and services. The latest selloff reflects growing concern that more capable AI tools may weaken pricing power in legacy software models and di

By Jung Yeon-Tae,President of the Korea Information Service of the Construction Industry and Essayist.How much wealth in South Korea is concentrated, in whose hands, and in what form? A synthesis of recently released statistics on financial assets and real estate makes one point hard to dismiss. Kor

Canada’s future submarine program is increasingly being framed in terms that go beyond performance comparisons. During a visit to Hanwha Ocean’s Geoje shipyard, Minister Steven Pure, Canada’s Minister of Defense Procurement, emphasized that if the competing submarines satisfy the Canadian Navy’s man

Series IndexPart 1 | Attorney Hong Seung-kwon: “AI Arrives in the Legal Profession”Part 2 | How Should Lawyers Use AI?Part 3 | Dividing Roles Between AI and Lawyers By Hong Seung-kwonPrincipal Attorney, PAN Law Firm (skh@law-pan.com)Many people assume that what lawyers do is “litigation.” That is no

In the AI era, “global soft power” is no longer a simple contest of likeability. If cultural exports once created attention, today that attention must travel through recommendation systems and platform algorithms—and survive there. For influence to endure, three elements increasingly move together:

Series IndexPart 1 | When AI Enters the Classroom, What Choice Will Korean Education Make?Part 2 | AI Has Broken Korea’s School AssessmentsPart 3 | Why Korea Needs a New Framework Act on Education in the AI Era By Jung Yeon-Tae,President of the Korea Information Service of the Construction Industry

Series Index1- Humanoid Civilization Shift Driven by Physical AI: The Emergence of “i-Human (AI-Human) Productivity.”2- Human Reallocation: Laborers Disappear, Leaving “Architects” and “Governors.”3- The Essential Conditions for Humanoids: System Requirements for Power, Safety, Autonomy, and Control

The U.S. Department of Defense’s move to bring Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok into Pentagon networks is not a routine “new tool” story. As discussion extends beyond unclassified use to the possibility of deployment in classified environments, the center of gravity shifts away from performance and convenie

By Jung Yeon-Tae,President of the Korea Information Service of the Construction Industry and Essayist.Today, we stand on the achievements built by liberal democracy and the market economy. This system helped societies move beyond war and poverty, dictatorship and isolation, widening individual freed

Series IndexPart 1 | Attorney Hong Seung-kwon: “AI Enters the Legal Field”Part 2 | How Should Lawyers Use AI? By Hong Seung-kwonPrincipal Attorney, PAN Law Firm (skh@law-pan.com)Lawyers today tend to fall into two broad groups. Some actively use AI in their work, while others avoid it almost entirel