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Seventy-eight. Four. Zero.

Those three figures explain more about Korea deep tech 2026 than any government press release ever will. When the consultancy Reddal assembled its

The Korea healing tourism act does not sound like a story. Nevertheless, it begins at 6:14 a.m. in Wanju, a rural county three hours south of Seoul. A German engineer named Lena sits cross-legged on a wooden veranda at

It is 3:14 a.m. on a Wednesday in Seoul. The last subway left hours ago. On a night bus crawling down Gangnam-daero, a man in his late twenties is not sleeping. He is watching a candlestick chart on his phone, thumb hovering over a sell button, face lit blue.

Nobody around him finds this strange. Two seats back, a woman in a delivery uniform is doing s...

There is a pink glow you start to notice once you have lived in Seoul for a while. It leaks out from a glass storefront in Hongdae, or from a basement unit near a Gangnam subway exit. Walk closer, and the signage resolves into something a first-time visitor rarely expects. It is a Korea unmanned adult store: open twenty-four hours, no staff inside, a self-che...

On May 3, 2026, a Korean government fund did something it had never done before. It wrote a $400 million equity check to a software company. Not a chipmaker, not a shipbuilder, not one of the sprawling conglomerates that usually collect state money in Seoul. The recipient was Upstage, a six-year-old artificial intelligence startup with fewer employees than a single floor of S...