South Korea

Korea tops the test scores, Finland skips the pressure. What are we actually measuring when we rank schools?

Sixty-three defectors reached South Korea this year — every one through a third country. Here's what the DMZ, China, Russia, and sea routes really ...

North Korea's state banquets are elaborate, plentiful — and often described as bland. What's really on the table?

Vint Cerf says they didn't know — and they did. How early internet subculture formed, where it lived, and whether it survived.

Tang ping, quiet quitting, and the N-po generation — what happens when people stop donating effort they were never paid for?

A man skipped synagogue, opened ChatGPT instead, and got a prayer that knew his life. Is AI-generated prayer real prayer?

North Korea keeps no public visitor statistics — so who actually gets in, and why have the diplomats who lived there said almost nothing?

Imports-to-GDP doesn't measure trade balance — it measures openness. Here's what the 50% line really separates.

Nine states. Two thousand detonations. Why a nuclear test is often a sentence in a conversation, not a lab result.

What flying North Korea's flag carrier actually feels like — and why a cut-off state still shows up to ICAO meetings.

A warranty, a lease, and a long drive: why laws that exist don't always protect the people they name.

Hannah's question: what would Israel look like if it had stayed under Jewish rule for 2,000 years — and was antisemitism structural or circumstantial?

Steel is really two industries wearing one word — and the health and carbon ledgers land in different places.

From Edison's carbon filament to the blue LED that unlocked white light — how we got from 1 lumen per watt to 150.

Israel has a legally mandated afternoon rest that almost nobody takes. Where the siesta came from, why Spain abandoned it, and who's napping now.

Voter turnout is one reading from one instrument. What else tells us whether a democracy is actually engaged?

A 24-hour pedestrian crossing between Eilat and Taba, where a free stamp, a one-kilometer fee waiver, and four treaty zones shape every trip into S...

Bird strikes happen about 53 times a day in the U.S. — and the real story is far stranger than the flaming-engine footage.

Rockets get the coverage, but the real work happens at consoles on the ground. What 15,000 Guardians actually do.

The IAEA Board reported Iran to the Security Council for the first time in 20 years — over 440kg of uranium it can't locate.