The Myth of S. Korea’s World-beating Nuclear Energy Exports

“Mommy, can I go and play by the nuclear power station?” — The above promotional image is from the website of KEPCO, South Korea’s largest energy provider. This autumn, South Korean media and netizens were busy arguing [http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/800807.html] out the pros and cons of building new nuclear plants. At a building site in Busan, new reactors lay in the early stages of completion, with construction work suspended by the new Moon Jae-in administration.