Credit: Depositphotos The candidacy of Lee Jae-myung in South Korea’s 2022 presidential election brought international media attention to his record of providing youths with a basic income as governor of Gyeonggi Province. Policy observers are asking whether he might adopt a more expansive universal basic income policy if he were to win the Blue House in March.
However, the bigger story that these observers are missing is the leading role that local governments are playing in South Korea to experiment with creative solutions to societal challenges.
Technology and central government handicaps respectively act as the push and pull factors in this […]
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