Featured Media 19 December 2025 Student Newspaper Strikes a Defiant Tone Middle school-aged editors with hard-hitting journalism.
Featured Conservatives 18 December 2025 O Se-hun Seeks Redemption with Sewoon Plaza Redevelopment Sewoon Plaza redevelopment may fuel the conservative mayor's re-election bid.
Featured Newsletter 16 December 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2025 TBR looks ahead to a new era in 2026.
Featured Business & Economy 15 December 2025 Seoul Real Estate Reaches New Heights High-rises never cease to be popular.
Featured Blue House 12 December 2025 Reckoning with the Truth of the Itaewon Disaster Photo: Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (far left) attends the memorial for the Itaewon disaster with leaders of major political parties. Credit: Yonhap News. Three years since the crowd crushing event in Itaewon 이태원 that killed 159, the South Korean government is reckoning with the true cause of the disaster. On
Featured Newsletter 9 December 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2025 The Seoul real estate market continued to plague the Democratic Party.
Featured Courts 9 December 2025 Skepticism Over Court Packing: Data Photo: Hall of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Credit: Supreme Court. By rushing to overturn Lee Jae-myung 이재명’s not-guilty verdict just days before the presidential election, the Supreme Court 대법원 blatantly inserted itself into electoral politics. (See previous coverage, “Total War of Institutions.”) But the National
Featured Business & Economy 8 December 2025 Jeonse Begins to Fade Credit: Public demand. Jeonse 전세, the unique South Korean rental system in which the renter makes a massive deposit of up to 70% of the home value, is starting to give way to the more conventional monthly rentals 월세. In September, 65% of all new rental agreements were monthly rentals,
Featured Newsletter 2 December 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2025 One year has passed since Yoon Suk-yeol’s insurrection attempt.
Featured Culture 25 November 2025 Giants Fans Despair as Twins and Eagles Battle in the Korean Series Busan team's playoff funds are untouched for nearly a decade.
Featured North Korea 24 November 2025 Majority No Longer Wants Reunification: Data For the first time, the naysayers are the majority.
