Julie Chen

DMZ Tourism Economy: Inside Korea’s Border Business

ARTICLE BODY There is a Starbucks in Gimpo where you can order a cold brew and then look at North…

3 months ago

Korea Tokenized Securities: Inside the $250B STO Revolution

It is a Tuesday night in a small Mapo-gu apartment. A 28-year-old office worker named Jihye is buying a piece…

4 months ago

Korea Private Education 2026: Inside the $20 Billion Hagwon Empire

On a weekday evening in Daechi-dong, the academic heart of southern Seoul, the sidewalks fill with a peculiar kind of…

4 months ago

Korea Recommerce Market 2026: From Sneaker Flips to K-pop Poca

It's 5:30 a.m. on a Thursday in Hongdae. A line of roughly sixty people snakes around the corner of a…

5 months ago

Korea AI Data Center Boom 2026: $30B Hyperscaler-Chaebol Race

On a cold Friday morning in late February 2026, Hyundai Motor Group's executive chair Chung Euisun stood next to South…

6 months ago

Korea K-Bio CDMO 2026: How BIOSECURE Reshaped Songdo

On March 10, 2026, Eli Lilly quietly announced something most American business journalists missed. The world's most valuable pharmaceutical company…

6 months ago

Korea Saju Industry: From Superstition to SaaS

There's a line of people snaking down a side street in Hongdae, Seoul. However, they're not waiting for a pop-up…

6 months ago

Korea Fintech 2026: Inside the World’s Most Cashless Economy

Walk into any coffee shop in Seoul. Nobody reaches for a wallet. Instead, everyone taps a phone — or opens…

6 months ago

K-Startup Center: Korea’s Global Launchpad Works

A maritime navigation startup based in Singapore needed one thing above all else: credibility with local port authorities. It found…

6 months ago

GLP-1 Supply Chain War: Lilly’s $4B Asia Bet

The world's best-selling drug class doesn't have a demand problem. It has a GLP-1 supply chain problem — and the…

6 months ago