The developmental state is also a construction state, and too often the government seems to feel that nature untrammelled is a chance wasted.

ECONOMIST: What Lee Myung-bak still needs to do

Traces of the developmental state persist.

ECONOMIST: What Lee Myung-bak still needs to do

Civic awareness and empowerment: readers have used some of the articles published in the newspaper to demand action and greater information from state officials regarding the implementation (or none-thereof) of developmental projects, the provision of basic social amenities, official strategies of fighting cases of gender-based violence (and violence in general), bureaucratic negligence, and official apathy.

UNESCO: Khabar Lahariya (News Waves)