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Healthcare and assistance for the elderly are particular challenges for South Korea’s rapidly aging society. Plan Shooting 2/Imazins via Getty Images

How South Korea is tackling its super‑aging problem – and what other aging nations can learn from its experience

South Korea’s unusually rapid transition to a super-aged society means it has had little time to find solutions for pension funding and healthcare for the elderly.
Ashton Lansdell of the Los Angeles Queens bats during the Women’s Professional Baseball League Opening Day game against the New York Heights on Aug. 1, 2026, in Springfield, Ill. Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images

The Women’s Professional Baseball League is betting that women’s baseball has a future in the US

What will it take for the league to survive, expand and carve out its own identity in an increasingly saturated pro sports landscape?
Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon stream combines a restored urban stream with pedestrian paths, stepped seating and bridges along a major downtown corridor. (Luna Khirfan)

Many cities buried urban streams. Here’s how to bring them back

Stream daylighting can help manage stormwater, restore habitats and create greener, more walkable public spaces.
Underwater data centers will accumulate sea life, like this Microsoft data center testing module, which in two years underwater attracted algae, barnacles and sea anemones. Microsoft

AI companies look to the ocean as a place to put more data centers

Moving servers into the ocean does not make underlying environmental challenges disappear. And it creates new concerns as well.
Protesters appear in front of Starbucks Korea headquarters in Seoul after the company launched its ‘Tank Day’ campaign, which sparked widespread backlash. Kichul Shin/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Starbucks’ big marketing blunder in South Korea shows how cultural blind spots can put global brands in a bind

Translation is only part of the challenge for multinational companies. Words, slogans and symbols can take on entirely different meanings across cultures.
Ho Chi Minh City in Southern Vietnam (pictured here on April 13 2026) is the country’s most densely populated city, which stood at 9.5 million inhabitants in 2024. Sakcared/Shutterstock (no reuse)

Vietnam’s population hit the 100 million milestone. Where’s it headed?

Rising population growth should slow in the coming decades and see a decline in the second half of the century.
ECAs could be a driving force in the move towards decarbonisation. RaffMaster / Shutterstock

The hidden role of export credit in the energy transition

Amid the ongoing energy crisis, climate economics experts assess how much export credit agencies are actually driving the shift to lower-carbon as they focus financing on green energy.
There’s a long history of children revising, adapting and remixing language and games. Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

The 6‑7 craze offered a brief window into the hidden world of children

From Pig Latin to Punch Buggy, kids have long used nonsensical language, gestures and games to carve out cultures of their own.

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