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.
Featured Blue House 28 May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol's Easy First Week Shortly after the first North Korean provocation of his term, Yoon went shopping.
Featured Key Players 27 May 2022 Kim Ji-ha, 89, Poet for Democracy with a Complicated Legacy The writer of the defining poem for South Korea's democracy struggles made a stunning about-face later in his life.
Featured Blue House 26 May 2022 Moon Jae-in's Place in History Moon was not without faults, but his achievements will likely survive the test of time.
Featured Business & Economy 25 May 2022 Korean Department Store is the Worlds’ Biggest Luxury Goods Seller Shinsegae Gangnam overtook London's Harrods as the highest grossing single store.
Featured Newsletter 23 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol met with Joe Biden. TBR presents a viewer's guide for the Local Elections.
Featured Blue House 23 May 2022 Moon Jae-in is the Most Popular President in South Korean History: Poll Moon is also the first president who leaves office with a higher approval than the incoming president.
Featured Society 20 May 2022 Public Transit Access for the Disabled Has a Long Way to Go: Data Access widely depending on the mode of transportation.
Featured Liberals 19 May 2022 Park Ji-hyeon's First Month: Rookie Leader Gains Her Footing The 26-year-old activist is emerging as an internal critic of the liberals.
Featured Business & Economy 18 May 2022 USD-KRW Exchange Rate Creeps Up The government is keeping a close watch on a potential FOREX run.
Featured Newsletter 16 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol is inaugurated as the 20th president of the Republic of Korea. Then he went shopping.
Featured History 16 May 2022 Thirty Year Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots Korean Americans have suffered a brunt of the damage as the police pulled their forces to defend the white suburbs.
Featured Business & Economy 13 May 2022 Early Morning Delivery Service Suffers as Pandemic Nears End New players wave the white flag while the established services are locked into a cutthroat competition.
Featured Liberals 12 May 2022 Prosecution Reform: the Democrats' Parting Shot The final bill of the Moon Jae-in administration finalized a longtime liberal project.
Featured Society 11 May 2022 Sensational Murder Case Becomes a Fodder for Prosecution Reform Prosecutors and the police both claimed they solved the murder by Lee Eun-hae.
Featured Newsletter 9 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2022 At the end of Moon Jae-in's term, TBR considers how history will remember his presidency.
Featured Blue House 9 May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol: Lame Duck at Inauguration For the first time in history, the incoming president is less popular than the outgoing president.
Featured Conservatives 6 May 2022 With PPP, the Exams Never End Worship of meritocracy is a pillar of the "new conservatives."
Featured Blue House 5 May 2022 Reading the Tea Leaves of Yoon Suk-yeol’s First Cabinet The nominees foretell a politics by investigation.
Featured Business & Economy 4 May 2022 Bank of Korea Raises Interest Rate, Pressuring the Real Estate Market Stress on the real estate market is beginning to emerge outside of Seoul.
Featured Newsletter 2 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2022 The Democratic Party passed one of the two prosecution reform bills. Our look on the first month of 26-year-old Park Ji-hyeon as the Democratic Party leader.
Featured Society 2 May 2022 Most Favor BTS Military Exemption Except Current Soldiers: Poll Even the men who recently completed military service are in favor.
Featured Society 29 April 2022 The Middle Class Thinks They're Not: Data A significant portion of South Korea's middle class consider themselves to be poor.
Featured Conservatives 28 April 2022 Garo Sero Institute: the Fount of Far-Right Misinformation South Korea's resurgent right takes it cues from its Youtube channel.
Featured Healthcare 27 April 2022 Privatized Healthcare Fears Rise Following a Court Ruling on For-Profit Hospitals Jeju District Court's ruling may be the first step toward privatizing healthcare over the long term.
Featured Newsletter 25 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2022 The Democratic Party tries to pass the last-minute law to limit the power of prosecutors.
Featured Media 25 April 2022 Media Obsesses Over Yoon's Lunch Menu, Wife's Flip-Flops Hundreds of articles were published about what Yoon Suk-yeol had for lunch and what his wife wore while holding a dog.
Featured Conservatives 22 April 2022 Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Justice Minister Nominee, Charges His Rival for Defamation Governance by prosecution begins.
Featured Elections 21 April 2022 Daejang-dong Scandal, Revisited The real estate scandal dominated the election, but resulted in nothing.
Featured History 20 April 2022 Hong Seong-u, 84, Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney Hong, who resigned from the bench to protest the Park Chung-hee dictatorship, was involved in nearly every major legal case in South Korea's democracy activism.
Featured Newsletter 18 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol announced his first cabinet. Should BTS be exempt from military service?
Featured Business & Economy 18 April 2022 Ssangyong Motors Adrift Again as Edison Motors Deal Fails The troubled automaker lost yet another buyer.
Featured Conservatives 15 April 2022 FKI’s Data Malpractice in the Presidency Move Even by the relaxed standards for a commissioned research, the claim of expected economic benefits from the Blue House move is unusually bold.
Featured Blue House 14 April 2022 Conservative Smear Campaign Against the Moon Administration Begins in Earnest The tendentious claims against Moon are designed to evoke the actual corrupt episodes of Park Geun-hye.
Featured Conservatives 13 April 2022 Park Geun-hye Signals a Return to Politics Park's personal attorney will run for mayor in Daegu, the conservative stronghold that is the former president's hometown.
Featured Newsletter 11 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2022 Prosecutors dropped charges against key Yoon Suk-yeol ally while indicting a prominent liberal politician. TBR's profile of Garo Sero Institute, South Korea's premier peddler of right-wing misinformation.
Featured Liberals 11 April 2022 Lee Jae-myung’s Very Feminist Campaign Lee may have lost the presidential election, but he gained a long-term asset: young women supporters.
Featured Business & Economy 8 April 2022 Ham Yeong-ju the New CEO of Hana Financial Group Despite Opposition Ham is legendary for becoming an executive of Korea's second largest bank with only a high school diploma.
Featured Blue House 7 April 2022 Yoon Moves the Office of the President out of the Blue House, Evicts the Defense Ministry The idea is common enough, but the execution is not.
Featured Society 6 April 2022 Afghan Children in Ulsan Face Discrimination on the Way to School After the initial bout of racism, the Afghan children began attending schools.
Featured Newsletter 4 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, March 2022 Lee Jun-seok attacks the disability rights activists. Presidential transition committee began a smear campaign against the Moon Jae-in administration.
Featured History 4 April 2022 Admiral J. Robert Lunney, 94, Hero of the Heungnam Evacuation Heungnam Evacuation was the largest evacuation operation with a single ship.
