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'Silicon Island': Korea’s borrowed future

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'Silicon Island': Korea’s borrowed future
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This week, the spot price for Brent crude oil came in at nearly $125 per barrel. In Seoul, that number isn’t just a statistic — it’s a tremor. It’s felt at the pump, in the grocery aisles and on the benchmark KOSPI, which just weathered its worst single-session collapse in 40 years. Beyond the everyday panic lies a deeper, more unsettling realization: South Korea is a high-tech superpower running on a borrowed heartbeat. Global headlines remain fixated on the “Tehran Tollbooth” and the negotiati

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