Featured Conservatives 10 August 2022 Yoon's Red-Baiting Fails to Launch The administration and the ruling party cannot keep their stories straight while the public is tuning them out.
Featured Newsletter 8 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol snubs Nancy Pelosi while his Education Minister resigned just 34 days after appointment.
Featured Bureaucracy 8 August 2022 Police Colonels Protest the Revival of Dictatorship Era Police Bureau More of the half of the frontline chiefs expressed opposition to the Interior Ministry's Bureau of Police.
Featured Media 6 August 2022 Collecting Busan's Untold Stories for Laundry To dig deep into local history, Busan Ilbo journalists opened a laundromat.
Featured Blue House 5 August 2022 South Korean Electorate Feels Buyer's Remorse with Yoon Suk-yeol: Data Lee Jae-myung would win in a walk in a hypothetical do-over.
Featured Blue House 4 August 2022 Cornered Yoon Suk-yeol Turns to McCarthyism Yoon administration is trying to make hay out of two Moon Jae-in era incidents involving North Korea, although none of the facts changed.
Featured Newsletter 2 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, July 2022 People Power Party falls into disarray. Massive South Korean arms sale to Poland. And Lee Jun-seok in the wilderness.
Featured Courts 1 August 2022 Constitutional Court Clashes with Supreme Court In only the second time in South Korean history, the Constitutional Court overturned a Supreme Court decision.
Featured Society 30 July 2022 Heo Jun-i is South Korea's First Fields Medal Winner Remarkable late bloomer took the top award in mathematics.
Featured Business & Economy 29 July 2022 Minimum Wage and How South Korea Avoided Japanization South Korea's high minimum wage made its export-dependent economy more resilient.
Featured Japan 28 July 2022 Abe Shinzo's Poisonous Legacy For Japan's reactionary leader, Korea was the perfect enemy that betrayed his true intentions.
Featured Conservatives 27 July 2022 PPP Chairman Lee Jun-seok Suspended over Sex-for-Bribes Scandal Lee was accused of receiving over 20 sessions with prostitutes from a businessman who wanted access to the president.
Featured Newsletter 25 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, July 2022 Police colonels protest the new Bureau of Police. A look into the Yoon administration's "Personnel Disaster".
Featured Society 25 July 2022 Multicultural Children Grow, Don't Make it to College: Data South Korea is slowly becoming a society of immigrants, but immigrant children face challenges.
Featured Society 23 July 2022 Family Tragedy from Crypto Crash Grips Korea Desperate investors have turned to the government for help.
Featured Business & Economy 22 July 2022 Price Hike for Power and Gas Pressures the Government The administration is trying to deflect the blame to the previous one with bald-faced falsehood.
Featured Foreign Policy 21 July 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol's NATO Embarrassment At his first major international event, Yoon faced a steep learning curve.
Featured Bureaucracy 20 July 2022 Justice Ministry Replaces Hundreds of High-Ranking Prosecutors Without a Supreme Prosecutor The Yoon administration skipped the mandatory consultation with the Supreme Prosecutor by not appointing one.
Featured Newsletter 19 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2022 Seoul Queer Parade resumes in-person festivities. The Yoon administration's desperate red-baiting.
Featured Elections 18 July 2022 The Real Estate Election, Over and Over Again: Data Every analysis shows the same conclusion: Seoul's real estate decided the presidential election.
Featured Recommendations 15 July 2022 Presidential Election Through the Lens of Participation and Cynicism Erik Mobrand, the best contemporary theorist of South Korean politics, offers his view on the 2022 election.
Featured Society 14 July 2022 Fairness for Thee, But Not for Me New study shows the standard of "fairness" is deployed selectively and along partisan lines.
Featured Business & Economy 13 July 2022 The Triple Quandary: Stock Market, Inflation, and KRW-USD Exchange Rate One causes another, which causes yet another.
Featured Newsletter 11 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2022 Considering Abe Shinzo's legacy with Korea. Also: Lee Jun-seok suspended, and spy agency attacks its former chiefs.
Featured Bureaucracy 11 July 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol Purges Spy Agency and Re-introduces Dictatorship Era Police Bureau The move is in the latest step in the administration to firm its hold over the policing and surveillance organs.
Featured Society 9 July 2022 Partying in Water While the Country Burns PSY drew criticism for water bomb concerts during severe drought.
Featured Courts 8 July 2022 Jury Trial Becoming a Haven for Sex Offenders: Data Jury trial's acquittal rate for alleged sex crimes is significantly higher than bench trial's.
Featured Blue House 7 July 2022 The Blue House Move, One Month Later The hasty move put a strain on the president's support staff while complicating USFK's return of its Yongsan base.
Featured Healthcare 6 July 2022 South Korean Healthcare Treats Cancer on the Cheap: Data Korea has the lowest mortality rate from cancer while having the lowest per capita medical expense.
Featured Newsletter 4 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, June 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol attended the NATO summit, where he faced a steep learning curve.
Featured Bureaucracy 4 July 2022 Yoon Appoints Top Tax Official Without Legislative Hearing This is the first time in South Korean history in which a head of a "Four Institutes of Power" was appointed with a legislative hearing.
Featured Society 1 July 2022 South Korea's First Gay Elected Official Cha Hae-yeong, a bisexual woman, was elected as a district council member in Mapo-gu, Seoul.
Featured Business & Economy 30 June 2022 Ghost of Real Estate Future: Troubled Redevelopment in Dunchon-dong Conservatives won thanks to the sizzling real estate market. What would happen if the market turned?
Featured Liberals 29 June 2022 Why Did Democrats Lose the Presidential Election? Real Estate New study confirmed the prevailing theory: former Democratic supporters withdrew because of real estate issues.
Featured Newsletter 27 June 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol administration purged the spy agency while proposing to re-install a dictatorship era bureau to control the police.
Featured Society 27 June 2022 International Students Keep Korean Literature Graduate Programs Afloat: Data Korean students are exiting the major while international students are drawn by Korea's pop culture.
Featured Media 25 June 2022 Land Ministry Can See the Future The ministry issued a press release describing an event in the future with fake quotes. The media was content to repeat them word for word.
Featured Business & Economy 24 June 2022 Labor Crunch Threatens Manufacturing Absence of migrant workers is slowing production.
Featured Elections 23 June 2022 Analysis: Local Elections Takeaways The low turnout helped the conservatives while the liberals barely salvaged face-saving wins.
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.
