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Busan's New Remote-Work Pilot Lets Local Talent Stay Put
Busan confirmed the results of its first "stay-and-work" remote employment pilot on August 27, after presenting outcomes from a results-sharing event held six days earlier at BEXCO. The Busan Stay-and-Work Remote Employment Support Project (부산 정주형 원격근무 지원사업) connects professionals already living in Busan with project work from companies based in the Seoul metropolitan area or overseas, letting them build a career without relocating.
Busan Biennale 2026: Three Venues, A Shuttered High School, & No Quiet Room
The 2026 Busan Biennale opened August 29 under the title "Dissident Chorus" (불협하는 합창), running 65 days across three venues on two islands. The edition brings together 46 artists and collectives from 22 countries, working mostly in sound, performance, and installation rather than the static visual work past editions leaned on.
Improve Your Korean Pronunciation with Shadowing
Shadowing is where you listen to a native Korean speaker say something and you try repeating it exactly as you heard it – with the same intonation, tone, speed, volume, and everything. But that’s easier said than done. Here are some tips for how to more effectively do shadowing to improve your Korean speaking.
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Korea's Shrinking Army and the Possibility of Drafting Women
South Korea's supply of 20-year-old men, the group its military depends on to fill the ranks, is running out faster than planners expected. The pool stood at 334,000 in 2020 and is projected to fall to roughly 138,000 by 2040, and the shortfall, already visible in this year's enlistment numbers, is driving a set of proposals ranging from hiring retirees to drafting women.
Updates on Korea's "Outdated Regulation" Dancing Ban
South Korea's culture minister has weighed in on the Busan club shut down for letting its audience dance. Chae Hwi-young, minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, posted a statement on X on September 1 calling the rule behind the closure outdated and pledging to fix it, the most direct government response yet to a controversy that has been building since late August.
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Chuseok Train Booking Opens on New SRT/KTX Unified System
South Korea's two high-speed rail operators completed their merger on September 1, folding SRT into Korail under a single KTX brand after a decade of running as separate systems. Chuseok ticket sales open days later, making this the first major holiday travel period booked entirely through the merged network.
SRT trains are being renamed KTX-Sancheon, and every booking now runs through one app, Korail+ (코레일+), rather than two separate systems with two separate seat pools.
BIFF's Grand Prize Now Reaches the Oscars
The Busan International Film Festival unveiled the full lineup for its 31st edition on September 1. The lineup includes 246 official selections from 59 countries, 95 of them world premieres, making this year's slate the festival's biggest since 2019.
The announcement matters beyond the numbers. This is the first edition since the film festival became eligible to send a winner straight to the Academy Awards, a status that changes what happens to whichever film takes the festival's top prize in October.
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Korea's Q2 Household Income Rose, But So Did the Squeeze
Korea's average household income rose 4.5 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2026, reaching 5.29 million won ($3,810) a month, according to the Ministry of Data and Statistics (국가데이터처)'s quarterly Household Income and Expenditure Survey (가계동향조사), released August 27. Household spending grew 3 percent over the same period, to 3.99 million won.
Korea ticket scalping ban takes effect
Enforcement decrees for South Korea's ticket scalping (암표) ban took effect on August 28, closing the loophole that let scalpers escape punishment whenever they avoided automated purchasing software.
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Drone-and-Robot Delivery Experiment Continues in Jinju
The Korea AeroSpace Administration and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ran the test from August 24 to 29 at the Centum River Park apartments in Jinju Innovation City. Drones carried packages from the Eunhasusoo Toy Bank and a children's library, crossed the river, and dropped them at a hub near the apartment complex.
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Gyeonggi Launches Real-Life Teacher Protection Officers
Gyeonggi Province officially deployed 300 dedicated teacher rights protection officers across the region on August 22, a nationwide first, months after a fictional version of the same idea became one of Netflix's most-watched Korean dramas of the year. Local press has been blunt about the connection, calling the new corps "참교육, made real."
Should You Learn Korean Through Japanese? | Into Korean
I want to know about your experiences – have any of you ever tried learning Korean through Japanese, or vice versa? What was it like, and what advice would you give to someone else attempting the same thing?
I used to do this when I was first learning Korean and had some difficulties with it, so I wanted to make this video to summarize what you should expect, what you should avoid, and how you can make the process more effective.
Why Dancing Can Still Get a Korean Venue Shut Down
A two-month business suspension against a small indie club in Busan has reopened a decades-old argument over one of the stranger corners of Korean regulation: whether a restaurant's customers are legally allowed to dance. Ovantgarde, a live-music venue near Kyungsung and Pukyong universities, played its last show before the shutdown on August 22, and by the following week supporters had filed a National Assembly petition asking lawmakers to rewrite the law behind it.
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Jeju Missing Persons Case Puts Police System Under Scrutiny
A Jeju District Court issued an arrest warrant on August 25 for a police officer accused of falsely closing missing persons cases, including one belonging to a 37-year-old woman whose body was found 104 days after she disappeared. The officer, identified only by his surname Bu, is suspected of closing roughly 200 missing persons cases at his own discretion, and investigators have so far identified about 10 in which he used an identical, apparently fabricated justification.
Seoul Declares Shade a Basic Right for Pedestrians
Seoul has formally adopted "the right to walk in shade" (그늘보행권) as a core principle of its urban planning. City officials made the announcement on August 19, folding shade requirements directly into the city's master plan and living-zone plans.
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Korea's Senior Poverty Rate Is the Highest in the OECD
An infographic ranking countries by senior poverty rate has been circulating this week, with South Korea at the top by a wide margin. The number holds up. Statistics Korea and the OECD's own Income Distribution Database agree that 39.8 percent of Koreans aged 65 and older lived on less than half the national median income in 2023, the highest rate among all OECD members and more than two and a half times the OECD average.
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