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East Asian Legends & Classics
- In Search of the Supernatural: Why Do Grudges End in Graves and Trees? (2/3) (2026-10-11)
- In What Spirit Did Gan Bao Write the Soushen ji (1/3) (2026-10-10)
- Where Have Foreign Institutions Recorded Admiral Yi Sun-sin's Greatness? (2026-10-09)
- How Did Lady Suro Return from the Sea? (2026-10-09)
- Seongjin Has Awakened — So Why Is It Still Called a Dream? (3/3) (2026-10-07)
- The Nine Cloud Dream: How Its Eight Romances Repeat Across Chapters (2/3) (2026-10-06)
- Where do Samguk Sagi Book 13 and the Lay of King Dongmyeong differ on Jumong's egg? (2026-10-05)
- Why does the dating of Guunmong narrow to 1687? (1/3) (2026-10-02)
- In Which Text Was Korea's Dokkaebi Story First Recorded? (2026-10-02)
- Why do the Samguk Yusa and Jewang Ungi name different mothers for Dangun? (2026-10-02)
Korean Traditional Objects
- Jangdo: why did it come to be called the knife of chastity? (2026-10-11)
- Najeonchilgi: Why Korean Mother-of-Pearl Lacquerware Grinds Seashell Thin and Glues It On (2026-10-09)
- Manggeon: The Korean Horsehair Headband That Showed a Man's Rank (2026-10-08)
- Why Were Norigae Hung Three to a Set? (2026-10-07)
- How the Joseon Gat Became an Institution: Legal Codes, the Annals, and the Three Artisans of Gannil (2026-09-23)
- Did Ondol Really Become a World Standard? ISO 11855, Floor Heating and Heat Pump Efficiency Checked (2026-09-14)
World Culture & Traditions
- Why do people see hope in Rescene, the group that reached No. 1 on Melon after two years in obscurity? (2026-10-09)
- Korea's Death Messenger: When Did the Black Gat and Black Durumagi Image Appear? (2026-10-08)
- Funerals and Mourning Around the World: Japan’s 99.97% Cremation, Korea’s 24-Hour Rule, Washington’s Return to Soil, and Mexico’s Returning Dead (2026-10-05)
- The World Does Not Share One New Year: Moon-Based Seollal, Spring-Based Nowruz, Zodiac-Based Songkran, and Ethiopia’s Thirteen Months (2026-09-22)
- How Oedipus Became a Modern Alibi: Sophocles’ Original Text and Eight Strands of Twentieth-Century Literature, Film, and Criticism (2026-09-19)
- How HOPE Reached No. 2 at the North American Box Office: A 1,560-Theater Wide Release, the Top Per-Theater Gross, and K-Content's Global Profit Equation (2026-09-12)
- Lee Chang-dong’s Eight Years and Venice’s Seven Minutes: Possible Love and the Road the Director Has Walked (2026-09-10)
- The Table Is Not Divided Into Three Worlds: How Tools, Hands, and Trade Shaped the Way We Eat (2026-04-12)
- What Festivals of Light Illuminate: Resistance Against Darkness, or the Order of the Calendar? (2026-05-03)
- The Global Box-Office Success of The Gods Must Be Crazy (《부시맨》) and San Communities Today: Reading the Reality Behind the Laughter (2026-09-02)
- What a Greeting Encodes: Distance, Hierarchy, and Touch Across Cultures (2026-09-06)
Geography, Places & History
- On a Mercator map, why does Greenland look as big as Africa? (2026-10-10)
- Why do ships pass through the Panama and Suez Canals so differently? (2026-10-08)
- Where do the areas of South and North Korea recorded in the National Atlas of Korea rank in the world? (2026-10-05)
- The Politics of Time Zones: One Clock for Five Zones in China, a Missing Day in Samoa, and Korea’s Twice-Moved 30 Minutes (2026-10-02)
- What the Map Taught You That Is Not True: How Many Continents, a Fifth Ocean, and an Hour Every 15 Degrees (2026-07-20)
- Capitals That Are Not the Biggest City: Ottawa, Canberra, Brasília, Sejong, and Nusantara, and the Geography of Planned Capitals (2026-09-26)
- The Silk Roads Were Not One Road: The Real Shape of the Exchange Network That Linked Desert, Steppe, and Sea (2026-09-23)
- World Heritage Status Is a Promise, Not a Prize: What UNESCO Does and Does Not Do (2026-06-25)
- Who Draws Borders, and How: Straight Lines, Moving Rivers, Enclaves Inside Villages, and a Continent Nobody Divides (2026-09-20)
- Why the International Date Line Zigzags: The Silence of the 1884 Conference, Magellan’s Lost Day, and the Map of Practicality that Kiribati’s UTC+14 Drew on the Ocean (2026-09-13)
- Finding the Center of the World: Uluru, Rapa Nui, Cusco, and Delphi as “Earth’s Navels” (2026-09-02)
Language, Education & Society
- How Does Korea's 2023 Unified Age Law Change My Age? (2026-10-11)
- When Does the School Year Begin? April in Japan, March in Korea, September in France, Late January in Sydney, and a Different Date in Every US State (2026-10-06)
- Where Does a Marriage Become Legal? Town Halls, Registration Forms, and Churches Around the World (2026-10-01)
- The Age of Majority Around the World: 18, 19, 20, and the Countries Where You Vote at 16 (2026-09-28)
- Why Small Coins Disappear: Penny Production and Cash Rounding (2026-09-24)
- How Do Disappearing Languages Come Back to Life? Legal Rights for Māori, Welsh and the Jeju Language, and the Institutions of Recovery Created by the UN Decade (2026-09-23)
- The World’s Scripts Write Sound in Four Ways: Alphabets, Abjads, Abugidas, Syllabaries, and Hangeul (2026-09-18)
- How AI Is Changing the Economy: Institutional Data on Investment, Jobs, Electricity and Distribution (2026-09-17)
- Why Comparisons of School Systems Keep Going Wrong: The Finland Myth, PISA Rankings, and Germany’s Dual System on the Same Level (2026-07-12)
- AI and Quantum Computers — What They Can Do Now and What They Still Cannot: Quantum Advantage Experiments, Quantum Machine Learning and the State of Error Correction (2026-09-14)
- Family-Name-First Is Not the Only Order: The World's Naming Systems and the ICAO Passport Standard (2026-09-14)
Environment & Climate
- What Temperatures Trigger a Tropical Night and a Heat Advisory, and Where Are They Written Down? (2026-10-10)
- El Niño and La Niña: how they differ, and how they affect Korea's weather (2026-10-07)
- Why Is Seoul's Winter Colder Than London's, and What Is Different About the Wind and the Sea? (2026-10-06)
- How do Asian dust and fine dust differ in particle size and composition? (2026-10-05)
- Why is the same storm called a typhoon, a hurricane or a cyclone? (2026-10-03)
- Why does the rainy season arrive at around the same time in three East Asian countries? (2026-10-02)
- Where Tap Water Is Safe to Drink: WHO Guidelines, National Testing Laws, and the Reality of Aging Pipes (2026-10-01)
- When Will Combustion Engine Sales End: What the EU's 2035 Zero-Emission Target, the UK's 2030 ZEV Quota, Norway's 90% Achievement, and California's PHEV Exception Reveal About the Real Transition (2026-09-25)
- Why Separate-Collection Rules Differ from Country to Country: The Laws and Infrastructure That Draw the Line Between Recycling and Incineration (2026-09-19)
- How Far Has France's Nuclear Renaissance Actually Progressed: Gravelines EPR2 Site Permits, DAC Review, and the 2050 Energy Strategy (2026-08-31)