Featured Business & Economy 19 November 2021 Electronics Companies Report Record Sales for 3Q 2021 Smartphones, memory chips and home appliances led the way.
Featured Key Players 18 November 2021 Yun Seok-yeol, the Executioner of Presidents The former Supreme Prosecutor's foray into politics is a reflection of the state of the conservatives.
Featured Blue House 17 November 2021 More Good than Bad: Presidential Assessments Park Chung-hee, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun earned high marks.
Featured Newsletter 15 November 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2021 The two presidential nominees assembled their foreign policy team and welcomed visiting dignitaries.
Featured Key Players 15 November 2021 Roh Tae-woo, 89, Mass Murderer and South Korea's First Democratically Elected President Roh embodied South Korea's tumultuous transition into democracy.
Media 13 November 2021 Online Bulletin Boards as Journalism Beats: Data Major papers copy-paste the most sensational anecdotes without any fact-checking.
Featured Business & Economy 12 November 2021 CJ ENM to Acquire SM Entertainment, Creating a Pop Culture Behemoth The success of BTS pushed SM Entertainment to seek greater distribution.
Featured Elections 11 November 2021 Daejang-dong Audit: Lee Jae-myung Laughs at Adversaries The Democratic presidential candidate won the battle, but it's unclear if he will win the war.
Featured Business & Economy 10 November 2021 Lee Myung-bak’s “Resource Diplomacy” Completely Bankrupt Signature initiative to secure natural resources failed spectacularly.
Featured Newsletter 8 November 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2021 The People Power Party nominated Yun Seok-yeol as its candidate, setting up the final round against Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung.
Featured National Security 8 November 2021 South Korea Launches Its First Domestically Produced Space Rocket The rocket will eventually place military satellites that will serve as "unblinking eyes" over North Korea.
Featured Society 6 November 2021 Vivid Look into the Eating Lives of the Poor "The Table of the Poor" by Kukmin Ilbo interactive shows a rare look at the South Korean poor's nutritional deficiency.
Featured Business & Economy 5 November 2021 Asset Ownership of South Korean Youths: Data The richest 20% of Koreans in their 20s and 30s have 35 times the assets of the bottom one-fifth.
Featured Breaking News 5 November 2021 Breaking News Analysis: Yun Seok-yeol Wins the PPP Nomination for 2022 Presidential Election The former Supreme Prosecutor fought off a furious chase from Assembly Member Hong Jun-pyo to capture the conservative nomination.
Featured Elections 4 November 2021 Sim Sang-jeong Promises New Politics for the Fourth Time Eighth in TBR's profiles of presidential candidates: Sim Sang-jeong of the Justice Party, a legendary labor activist.
Featured Business & Economy 3 November 2021 Yanolja to Acquire Interpark’s Leisure Divisions Yanolja recently received $1.7b investment from Softbank Vision Fund.
Featured Newsletter 1 November 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2021 Roh Tae-woo dies on the same day Park Chung-hee died. TBR profile of Yun Seok-yeol, the executioner of presidents.
Featured Conservatives 1 November 2021 Court Upholds Yun Seok-yeol's Suspension The ruling undermines the conservative presidential runner's claim that the Moon administration unfairly targeted him.
Featured Key Players 30 October 2021 Obituary: Lee Wan-gu, 71, Former Prime Minister with the Shortest Tenure Lee's aggressive inside baseball politics earned comparisons to Frank Underwood in House of Cards.
Featured Society 29 October 2021 Korea's First Known Transgender Soldier Wrongfully Discharged: Court Staff Sergeant Byeon Hee-su was a tank driver who underwent gender reassignment surgery.
Featured Conservatives 28 October 2021 Yun Seok-yeol, Anal Acupuncture and "True Law" Yun is showing an unfortunate knack for letting a small scandal grow into a big one.
Featured Business & Economy 27 October 2021 "Nano Society" and "X-Teen Generation": 2022 Consumer Trends Kim Nan-do's annual analysis of consumer trend is considered the leading authority.
Featured Newsletter 25 October 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2021 South Korea takes a major step toward space exploration. Lee Jae-myung fielded questions from the National Assembly on the Daejang-dong real estate scandal.
Featured Elections 25 October 2021 Daejang-dong Real Estate Scandal Threatens to Swallow the Presidential Race The scandal is hitting both Lee Jae-myung and the conservatives.
Featured History 23 October 2021 The 95th Hangeul Day Hangeul Day is the only national holiday in the world that celebrates an alphabet.
Featured Conservatives 22 October 2021 Yun Seok-yeol Can't Wait to be King The character for "king" on Yun's palm raised questions about the presidential candidates' hand-washing habits.
Featured Elections 21 October 2021 Lee Jae-myung's Stormy Rise to the Top TBR's profile of Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic nominee for the 2022 presidential election.
Featured Business & Economy 20 October 2021 Airlines: Rich Gets Richer, Poor Gets Poorer Ability to switch to freight is the secret to profitability during the pandemic.
Featured Newsletter 18 October 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2021 TBR profiles Sim Sang-jeong, presidential candidate for the Justice Party.
Featured Society 18 October 2021 More than 40% of Korean Population Could be Older than 65 in 2060: Data A significant portion of the elderly live alone.
Featured History 16 October 2021 Thirtieth Anniversary of the Two Koreas in the United Nations Separate UN membership for the two Koreas is a milestone in peaceful coexistence.
Featured Business & Economy 15 October 2021 'Squid Game' Becomes the First Korean Drama to Hit No. 1 on US Netflix The survival game genre packs an unusual emotional punch.
Featured North Korea 14 October 2021 South Korea's Missile Tests Push North Korea to Sue for Peace North Korea's statement is unusual in its transparent display of fear.
Featured Elections 13 October 2021 All Presidential Candidates Deeply Unpopular The favorability numbers for all four major candidates are deeply underwater.
Featured Newsletter 11 October 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2021 Lee Jae-myung clinched the Democratic Party presidential nomination, while a brewing real estate scandal is looming.
Featured Conservatives 11 October 2021 Conservatives Hit by Their Own Corruption Allegations What was supposed to attack the Democratic frontrunner boomeranged back.
Featured Breaking News 10 October 2021 Breaking News Analysis: Lee Jae-myung Wins the Democratic Nomination for 2022 Presidential Election Gyeonggi-do Province Governor scored a convincing victory over former Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon.
Featured Conservatives 9 October 2021 Obituary: Jo Yong-gi, 85, Leader of South Korea's Evangelicals Serial adulterer and white collar criminal was a major figure in South Korea's conservative politics through his church and newspaper.
Featured Business & Economy 8 October 2021 Hyundai's New Micro SUV Powered by Gwangju Job Plan Public-private partnership for job creation enabled an absurdly cheap and popular car.
Featured National Security 7 October 2021 South Korea's Missile Program Hints at Its Own Nuclear Ambitions Nearly 70% of the public favors nuclear armament.
Featured Elections 6 October 2021 Lee Nak-yeon's Resignation Sets Up a Jongno Showdown The "First District of Politics" will be an undercard for the presidential election.
Featured Newsletter 4 October 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, September 2021 TBR profiles Democratic presidential frontrunner Lee Jae-myung.
Featured Conservatives 4 October 2021 More Evidence for Prosecutors' Collusion with Conservative Politicians Documents show the Public Prosecutors' Office wanted to have conservatives put liberal politicians and journalists under investigation.
Featured Trivia 2 October 2021 "Daebak" and other Korean Slangs Listed in the Oxford English Dictionary adj. As a general term of approval: excellent, fantastic, great.
Featured Business & Economy 1 October 2021 Million Seller Novels Almost Extinct: Data Only two fictions sold more than a million copies in the 2010s, down from 17 such novels in the 1990s.
Featured Society 30 September 2021 Women in their 20s: Feminism May be the Future of South Korea’s Liberal Politics Young women are strongly liberal, but not yet sold on the main liberal party.
Featured Business & Economy 29 September 2021 KFTC Chief Blazes the Trail in Digital Economy Regulation Jo Seong-uk shifted focus from chaebol reform to digital economy regulation.
Featured Newsletter 27 September 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2021 Moon Jae-in and BTS addressed the United Nations. North Korea is suddenly interested in ending the Korean War - why?
Featured Elections 27 September 2021 Yu Seung-min, Leader of "Rational Conservatives" Yu has sought to wash out the taint of dictatorship from South Korea's right, but many conservatives consider him a traitor.
Featured Society 25 September 2021 New Drama D.P. Highlights Military Brutality The drama is set in 2014, a year rocked with major military abuse scandals.
