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Get your skates on
Pyeongchang is hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics – and it’s spending big on getting the games going.
Digging deep
Could the world’s longest undersea tunnel linking Japan and South Korea be built by the ‘Moonies’?
Politics
Francis Kéré’s dreams of a new parliament in Ouagadougou, the Polish government’s power grab and a new name in Korean politics.
Asia Pacific
Australia’s latest prime minister must make some tough decisions. Plus: Vietnam’s property boom.
Do it Korean style
South Korea’s design industry was faltering for decades. Today the forward-looking Arumjigi Foundation is bringing it up to date with a healthy respect for the creative traditions of the past.
Asia
Find out why Indonesia’s president flies Economy and why South Korea is cutting back on handouts.
Asia
Hong Kong's housing cremation urns, India's urban centres and Southeast Asia's Russian beach time.
Asia
Building a new state capital in India, South Korean entertainment and a political dynasty in the Philippines.
Remade in Korea
Seoul’s traditional tile-roofed hanok homes were in danger of disappearing. Now a modernised 80-year-old house in a central neighbourhood has proved there is still life in the classic Korean design.
