Featured Society 22 June 2022 Severe Drought Scorching South Korea, Causing Wildfires and Affecting Food Production Desperate public officials have resorted to rain rituals to combat climate change.
Featured Newsletter 20 June 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2022 The Yoon administration announced its economic policies. The Blue House move, one month later.
Featured Courts 20 June 2022 Liberal Politician Convicted for Criminal Defamation of Justice Minister Yu Si-min was sentenced to KRW 5m in fines for claiming Han Dong-hun surveilled his bank account.
Featured Culture 18 June 2022 New Netflix Documentary on the "Nth Room" Case The sexual exploitation case rocked South Korea in 2020.
Featured Bureaucracy 17 June 2022 Justice Ministry Establishes a New Bureau to Vet Political Appointees Opposition criticized it as a standing body of surveillance over high ranking officials.
Featured Media 16 June 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Difficult Relationship with the International Media International media has a special place in South Korean politics. The new president is struggling to connect with them.
Featured Culture 15 June 2022 South Korean Film Luminaries Sweep the Cannes Director Park Chan-wook and Actor Song Kang-ho won Best Director and Best Actor.
Featured Newsletter 13 June 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2022 Truckers' strike in response to the soaring fuel price threatens the economy. The looming real estate disaster in Dunchon-dong development.
Featured Business & Economy 13 June 2022 Paris Baguette Hunger Strike Ends After 53 Days Former employer Im Jong-rin demanded better labor conditions from South Korea's largest bakery chain.
Featured Conservatives 10 June 2022 "MeToo" Prosecutor Resigns in Protest from Sex Crimes Task Force Most of the task force resigned in solidarity.
Featured Blue House 9 June 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol Visits Gwangju for the Uprising Memorial The visit is commendable, but it's merely a starting point of a long road of healing.
Featured Society 8 June 2022 Teenage Women Rebel Against Gender Norms: Data But there are areas of surprising convergence between young women and young men.
Featured Newsletter 6 June 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, June 2022 Our breakdown of the Local Elections in which the conservatives won by a landslide.
Featured Conservatives 6 June 2022 Prosecutors Raid Moon Administration Officials While Dropping Charges Against Yoon Suk-yeol The court previously established Yoon's obstruction of internal investigation, but the PPO declined to pursue it.
Featured Society 3 June 2022 Solitude Means More Meat-Eating: Data Increase in single person households means more meat and delivery food consumption.
Featured North Korea 2 June 2022 Yoon's North Korea Policy: Same as Moon's North Korea Policy Despite Yoon's tough rhetoric, the substance of his policies is mostly the same as his predecessor's.
Featured Breaking News 1 June 2022 Breaking News Analysis: Conservatives Sweep the Low-Turnout Local Elections The core conservative voters carried the elections held just three months after the presidential election.
Featured Business & Economy 1 June 2022 Crypto Crash is a Window into South Korea's Elites Co-founders of Terra and Luna were connected to the United States and South Korea's dictatorship.
Featured Newsletter 30 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, May 2022 Early voting began for the Local Elections. Yoon Suk-yeol has trouble with the international media.
Featured Elections 30 May 2022 2022 Local Elections Viewer's Guide The biggest stage for those who do politics as a profession, now just two days away.
