Dark side of the Yoon: South Korea’s chaos

The country’s increasingly unpopular president, Yoon Suk Yeol, backed down six hours after his shocking move of imposing martial law. South Korea’s democracy has held firm (https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/1... far. Brazil’s gangsters have found a neat way to launder assets through the legal economy: by getting involved with politics (https://www.economist.com/the-america...) (7:26). And the hefty computations going into the design of breeze-free badminton arenas (https://www.economist.com/science-and...) (15:17).

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