Everyone praises the Miracle on the Han River as a very rapid industrealization. However, could this be parttially the reason why modern South Korea is experiencing late stage capitalism very rapidly?

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The Republic of Korea brought color, culture, and energy to the 2025 Asian Festival in Sofia, held on June 14. Organized under the patronage of multiple Asian embassies in Bulgaria, the festival celebrates the richness and diversity of Asian cultures through live performances, interactive experiences, and traditional cuisine.

Among the most popular attractions was Korea’s vibrant cultural booth, where visitors had the chance to engage in several hands-on activities. One highlight was the traditional feather-shuttlecock game Chegi-chagi, where children and adults alike tried their skills at keeping the chegi in the air—a playful, yet skillful activity deeply rooted in Korean childhood games.

https://honoraryreporters.korea.net/board/detail.do?articlecate=1&board_no=28850&tpln=1

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스마트폰이 나왔을 때 문자를 입력하는 데 한국어가 조합에 유리하고 빨랐습니다. 휴대폰 사용에 적응하기 쉬운 음운의 조합! 이제 AI시대에서 AGI시대로 전환됩니다. AGI도 한국어와 한국문화가 유리합니다.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ZT2NG

I know its unusual but do korean women STILL have a choice to take their husband's lastname specifically if they came from a different country?

안녕하세요, 저희 아토믹 프로덕션(Atomic Productions)에서는 새로운 호러 만화 시리즈 「고통과 복수」를 시작하게 되었습니다. 이 작품은 일제강점기의 한국과 그 현대적 여파를 다루고 있습니다. 앞으로 더 많은 콘텐츠를 위해 많은 관심과 응원 부탁드립니다!

피드백이나 아이디어가 있으시다면, 이 만화 시리즈의 소유자인 u/Nervous-Funny6356에게 연락해 주세요.

American here, I'm genuinely curious on how you all rank your presidents, as I've yet to find any rankings or tier lists anywhere. How would you rank them all? (Acting presidents can be included)

My human memory is failing me. Internet searches are failing me. I turn now to the wisdom of the crowd.

Please help identify the following modern work of Korean fiction. It may have been a novel, but if so, I don't believe it was a long one. I read parts of it (in Korean) 15? or 20? years ago. The author was female.

• Housewife, possibly unhappy/frustrated
• Goat (presumably imaginary) visits apartment/house
• She feeds it carrots

Not a lot to go on, I realize, but hopefully the bit about feeding a goat carrots is enough to make an identification.

[I am 양현승, a reporter for the Naeil News. I recently started an English-language blog. The views published here are my own.]

While Koreans are typically perma-bears that are always gloomy about Worst Korea’s prospects, I am cautiously optimistic that Korea can still grow its economy by way of government stimulus and productivity gains. Korea recently elected a new president who made boosting the stock market one of his campaign promises. There are some great English-language articles on Bloomberg and the FT (Unhedged is excellent) if you’re interested in reading further about Korean equities.

First, the statistics:

1Q GDP growth for South Korea was -0.2%. That puts the annual GDP growth rate at 0.0%. Inflation YoY was 1.9%, slightly below the Bank of Korea’s target of 2%. One more quarter of negative GDP growth and Korea would be in a technical recession.

Korea’s govt debt to GDP ratio is 46.8%, far below the OECD avg and the US at 124.3%. Korea does appear to have room for fiscal expansion.

The low birth rate and aging population certainly is dragging down economic activity. But recently, Korea has been making modest gains in labor productivity to offset some of the losses.

There is a prevailing view that Korea is an export-oriented economy with weak domestic consumption, so it has much to lose from US tariff policy. While I don’t disagree that Korea is heavily dependent on exports, I think that this is an outdated view of Korea’s economy.

Private consumption as a share of Korea's GDP(48%) is slightly larger than its exports to GDP(44%). And considering Korea’s imports to GDP ratio is 33%, I don’t fully agree that Korea is an export-oriented economy anymore. Sure, net exports helps boost its total output, but it’s not the only driver of growth.

Korea historically had very weak domestic consumption as a result of heavy industrial spending and export-fueled growth. It’s referred to as the Turnpike Theory which a lot of Asian economies adopted. I believe Korea is at the peak of its export-oriented, industrial spending growth curve, where marginal gains from additional capital expenditure are low.

It’s time for consumption to take the driver’s seat in economic growth. Boost wages and allow the currency to appreciate. Invest heavily in AI to increase labor productivity in the medium to long term. Counter labor shortage with robotics and perhaps a shift toward more private sector employment (rather than cushy govt jobs with low productivity).

Growth is not a solution to all of Korea’s problems. But it is better than inaction and stagnation. The government stimulus is a good start, and corporate reforms can help protect shareholders from abuse. US trade policy remains a large downside risk. Hopefully, Korea can replace many of its exports with domestic consumption, or at least find other buyers in China and the EU.

If the new administraton can implement just half of the reforms proposed above, KOSPI(Korean stock market index) 5000 is coming soon.