Featured Newsletter 28 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2024 The rift between Yoon Suk-yeol and Han Dong-hun may have become irreparable.
Featured Bureaucracy 28 October 2024 New Commissioner a Step Backwards for the National Human Rights Commission An Chang-ho is notorious for his homophobic stance and denial of the theory of evolution.
Featured Japan 25 October 2024 The Disappearing Dokdo Islets The Yoon Suk-yeol administration surrenders yet again.
Featured Society 23 October 2024 Shocking Amount of Deepfake Porn: Data Majority of all deepfake porn in the world features a Korean subject.
Featured Newsletter 21 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2024 North Korea sent its soldiers to Russia.
Featured Business & Economy 21 October 2024 Financial Investment Income Tax Becomes a Hot Potato The new tax was a landmark legislation for the Moon Jae-in administration.
Featured Society 18 October 2024 Greater Pension Coverage, But Still a Ways to Go: Data Gaps in coverage fall most heavily on those who can least afford them.
Featured Liberals 17 October 2024 What Lies Ahead of Lee Jae-myung The liberal leader is considered the presumptive next president, but the road ahead remains unpredictable.
Featured Business & Economy 16 October 2024 Public and Private Sector Debts Skyrocket Plummeting tax receipts led to a massive increase in government debt.
Featured Newsletter 15 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2024 Author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Featured Japan 14 October 2024 Korean School Wins Japanese High School Baseball Championship The tiny school that faced closure was saved by baseball.
Featured Bureaucracy 11 October 2024 Incels in the Police The police has taken the side of young men's paranoid misogyny.
Featured History 10 October 2024 The Liberation Day Schism South Korean right-wing's historical revisionism went from hints to explicit initiatives.
Featured Society 9 October 2024 Pilot Program for Filipina Domestic Workers Raises Labor Abuse Concerns Imported "caregivers" are exposed to wage theft and abuse.
Featured Newsletter 8 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2024 The Office of the President sprung a navy’s worth of leaks.
Featured Business & Economy 8 October 2024 Workers Gave Up Summer Vacation Because of Cost: Data Credit: Public domain. Summer is typically a time for rest and relaxation, but South Korea’s sluggish economy has caused many to put their plans on hold. According to a survey of workers conducted by Global Research from May 31 to June 10 and released on August 4, only 48.
Featured Newsletter 30 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2024 First Lady Kim Geon-hee found herself in yet another kind of trouble.
Featured Newsletter 17 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol faces a downcast Chuseok holiday.
Featured Business & Economy 13 September 2024 Koreans Intrigued by AI: Data Public interest in AI has jumped significantly.
Featured Bureaucracy 12 September 2024 Prosecutors Face Down the End of the Road Prosecutors created the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. Will they fall with it?
Featured Business & Economy 10 September 2024 Massive EV Battery Fire Raises Safety Concerns Can EV be safely stored in South Korea's dense parking lots?
Featured Newsletter 9 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol spurned the National Assembly, while his foreign policy advisor patronized Kamala Harris.
Featured Culture 9 September 2024 Olympics: South Korea Outperforms Expectations Unexpectedly strong result came with allegations of mistreating athletes.
Featured Society 6 September 2024 Love Not Enough to Overcome Political Differences Majority said they would not date or marry anyone whose politics are different from theirs.
Featured Blue House 5 September 2024 All Roads Lead to Kim Geon-hee Virtually every scandal of the Yoon administration is traceable o the First Lady, who is alienating conservatives.
Featured Business & Economy 4 September 2024 E-Commerce Giants Tmon and WeMakePrice Falter Coupang's success left no room for the stragglers.
Featured Newsletter 2 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2024 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration took aim against Moon Jae-in.
Featured History 2 September 2024 Obituary: Kim Min-gi, 73, Champion of Indie Music Kim's music became the anthem of South Korea's democracy movement.
Featured Society 30 August 2024 First Government Survey of Borderline Intelligence A little fewer than 7m South Koreans have borderline intelligence.
Featured United States 29 August 2024 Seoul's Wary Eye to the US Presidential Election If case of a Trump victory, a nuclear South Korea might be next.
Featured Business & Economy 28 August 2024 Hyosung Heir Announces Truce with His Brothers Three heirs of the chaebol group have been locked in a bitter dispute
Featured Newsletter 27 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2024 Prosecutors declined to charge the First Lady for accepting a bribe on camera. Also: Lee Jae-myung’s second term as opposition leader.
Featured Society 26 August 2024 The French Surrender to Incels Renault Korea barely fought back against the misogynistic young men's paranoid claims about its promotional video.
Featured History 23 August 2024 Can the June 29 Declaration Serve as Inspiration for Yoon? A negotiated surrender may be a way out.
Featured Blue House 22 August 2024 Yoon's Governance by Youtube Yoon Suk-yeol is increasingly showing signs of being detached from reality.
Featured Courts 21 August 2024 Familial Immunity for Economic Crimes Held Unconstitutional Ruling closes a major loophole for fraudsters who steal from their own family.
Featured Newsletter 19 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2024 Descendants of independence fighters boycotted Liberation Day events.
Featured Society 19 August 2024 Busan at Risk of Extinction: Data Even South Korea’s largest urban areas are not immune to the demographic forces.
Featured Foreign Policy 15 August 2024 The End of “Northern Diplomacy” The end of the most successful diplomatic initiative in South Korean history makes the inter-Korean division more dangerous and intractable.
Featured Business & Economy 14 August 2024 South Korea Became More Equal: Data South Korea was one of the most successful in combating income equality for the past two decades.
Featured Newsletter 13 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2024 The National Assembly tilted against the prosecutors.
Featured Business & Economy 13 August 2024 Danish Ban a Boon for Spicy Noodles Samgyang's stock performance has been spicier than Nvidia's.
Featured Climate Change 12 August 2024 Lovebug Infestations Unnerve Koreans New pest from the United States only emerged two years ago.
Featured North Korea 8 August 2024 Balloon Wars: Washington Steps into Its Own Mess The United States encouraged the entirely foreseeable inter-Korean slapfight.
Featured Blue House 7 August 2024 Roh Moo-hyun Again Rated the Most Beloved President: Data Three liberal presidents were in the top four.
Featured Business & Economy 6 August 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol Floats Tax Cuts Even as tax receipts are plummeting.
Featured Newsletter 5 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, July 2024 All of Yoon Suk-yeol’s troubles traced back, once again, to his wife.
Featured Society 5 August 2024 Miryang Sexual Assault Scandal Re-Surfaces Vigilantism is shining a new light on the 20-year-old crime.
Featured Blue House 1 August 2024 Now, for His Next Trick: Yoon Claims Discovery of Oil and Gas off the Coast of the Korean Peninsula The deeply unpopular administration is trying every desperation move.