Featured Breaking News 26 July 2021 Breaking News: the Two Koreas Reconnect the Inter-Korean Hotline, Signaling the Resumption of Dialogue The resumption came on the 68th anniversary of the end of active fighting in the Korean War.
Featured Newsletter 26 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, July 2021 TBR profiles major presidential candidates, beginning with former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae.
Featured Society 26 July 2021 SNU Cleaning Worker Died at Work from Exhaustion Amid Bullying Allegations The university refused to apologize for the death, provoking outcry.
Featured Society 24 July 2021 Oldest Hangeul Type from 15th Century Discovered The types were used in a press that was older than the Gutenberg press.
Featured Business & Economy 23 July 2021 No Net Neutrality: Netflix Loses Lawsuit on Bandwidth Fee against Internet Service Provider The court found in favor of SK Broadband, which complained Netflix was using too much bandwidth.
Featured Society 22 July 2021 Pride in South Korea: Can Anti-Discrimination Act Pass This Time? The law failed seven times, but with broad liberal support, this time may be different.
Featured Business & Economy 21 July 2021 Two Years After Japan's Trade War, South Korea's Material Industry is Thriving Tokyo intended to kneecap South Korea's high tech industry, but homegrown material industry easily replaced the Japanese imports.
Featured Newsletter 19 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2021 Another Moon Jae-in administration bureaucrats joined the opposition. South Korea battled a sweltering heat wave and a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Featured Elections 19 July 2021 The Presidential Primary Season Officially Kicks Off The Democratic Party began the television debates; the People Power Party will kick off in August.
Featured Society 17 July 2021 Data: Despite New Technologies, Household Chores Increase And most of it still falls on women.
Featured Courts 16 July 2021 Supreme Court: Non-Religious Pacifists Also Entitled to Alternate Military Service Previously, the Constitutional Court provided for alternative service for religious pacifists.
Featured Conservatives 15 July 2021 Is Yun Seok-yeol Ready for Prime Time? Yun is the leading conservative candidate for presidency, but his transition from a prosecutor to a politician has not been smooth.
Featured Business & Economy 14 July 2021 Central Bank Announces Interest Rate Hike "Within This Year" Bank of Korea cited the need to normalize the monetary policy as the asset markets sizzle.
Featured Newsletter 12 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2021 The Democratic Party made its first cut for the presidential primaries. Conservatives take aim at the Ministry of Gender Equality.
Featured Conservatives 12 July 2021 Chosun Ilbo's Vulgarities Against Liberal Politicians Reach a New Low Twice in one week, the conservative paper used image and slur evoking prostitution in connection with liberal politicians.
Business & Economy 10 July 2021 Shinsegae to Acquire eBay Korea, Shaking up the e-Commerce Market The offline retail giant is seeking to shore up online retail.
Society 9 July 2021 "We are not Data!" Exclaim the Workers for Delivery Platforms Jeon Tae-il's famous rallying cry for labor meets the 21st century economy.
Featured Foreign Policy 8 July 2021 Moon Jae-in Tours Europe as the Fog of War Against COVID-19 Clears South Korea is poised to play a major role in the post-COVID world order.
Featured Business & Economy 7 July 2021 Krafton, a Leading Videogame Company, Prepares for an IPO The publisher of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is poised to become South Korea's most valuable videogame company.
Featured Newsletter 5 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, June 2021 The proposed law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation may have a better chance this time. Presidential race kicks off in earnest.
Featured Business & Economy 5 July 2021 Mid-sized Construction Company to Buy the Troubled Eastar Jet Acquisition by Seongjeong Construction is raising eyebrows as it is making a KRW 110b bid.
Featured Key Players 3 July 2021 Obituary: Yu Sang-cheol, 50, Hero of South Korea's 2002 FIFA World Cup Run After retiring in 2006, Yu astonished the public by disclosing for the first time that he was functionally blind in his left eye and played with one eye for most of his career.
Featured Liberals 2 July 2021 Democratic Party Demands 12 of Its Lawmakers Suspected of Real Estate Speculation to Leave the Party Conservatives initially resisted investigation, but is bowing to the public pressure.
Featured Liberals 1 July 2021 Former Justice Minister's Best-Selling Memoir Compels a Look Back on the Cho Kuk Affair The former Justice Minister's new memoir is sweeping the bestseller lists.
Featured Climate Change 30 June 2021 Climate Change Comes for South Korea's Seafood The new data journalism site shows climate change is hurting cold water fish.
Featured COVID-19 29 June 2021 South Korea's Biotech Firms Thrive in the Pandemic The new richest man of South Korea is an owner of a biotech company.
Featured Newsletter 28 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2021 Former Supreme Prosecutor, the leading conservative presidential candidate, is coming under increasing scrutiny as he makes an uneven transition toward politics.
Conservatives 28 June 2021 Conservatives Elect Incel Leader as Its New Chairman Lee is the first major party chairman in South Korean history to have never won an election.
Featured Recommendations 26 June 2021 Book Review: a Nuanced Look at North Korean Defectors Jo Cheon-hyeon's book The Defectors takes down the myths about the North Koreans who leave their country.
Featured Conservatives 25 June 2021 Spy Agency Interfered with Overseas Voting in 2012 The National Intelligence Service agent who blew the whistle was tortured with sensory deprivation.
Featured Climate Change 24 June 2021 Climate Change Returns to the Top of the South Korean Agenda By hosting the P4G summit, Seoul seeks to make up for the lost time.
Featured Liberals 23 June 2021 Justice Party’s Surprising Rightward Lurch The erstwhile progressive party is now the left flank of the conservatives.
Newsletter 21 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2021 As the pandemic's end nears, Moon Jae-in tours Europe.
Featured North Korea 21 June 2021 With the Workers’ Party Rule Changes, Kim Jong Un Strikes His Own Path The new Number 2 post may mean Kim Jong Un has health concerns.
Featured Society 19 June 2021 Picasso's "Massacre in Korea" Visits Seoul The painting previously had difficulty being exhibited in South Korea as it depicted US forces' of massacre of North Koreans.
Featured National Security 18 June 2021 Poll: Volunteer Military Favored over Conscription For the first time, the end of conscription is favored in an opinion poll.
Featured Liberals 17 June 2021 The Political Culture that is Roh Moo-hyun Twelve years after Roh's death, the memory of the late president has been the emotional engine of the liberals.
Featured Business & Economy 16 June 2021 Namyang Dairy Sold to a Private Equity Company After a Scandal Private equity company Hahn & Company bought the embattled dairy producer out of family ownership.
Liberals 15 June 2021 Minor Democratic Party Leaders Declare a Presidential Run Four Democrats announced a presidential run, with heavyweights expected to announce later this month.
Featured Newsletter 14 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2021 Moon Jae-in attends the G7 summit. Revisiting the Cho Kuk affair that rocked South Korean politics in 2019.
Featured National Security 14 June 2021 Smartphones in the Military Receiving Rave Reviews In addition to entertainment, smartphone has been a crucial device for whistle-blowing.
Featured COVID-19 12 June 2021 South Korean Companies to Produce Additional COVID-19 Vaccines Samsung Biologics and SK Bioscience entered into new agreements with Moderna and Novavax.
Featured Business & Economy 11 June 2021 Liberals: Good for the Stock Market South Korea's KOSPI index rose the most under the liberal administrations.
Featured United States 10 June 2021 Moon-Biden Summit Ushers in a New Era of ROK-US Alliance The scope of the alliance now covers Central America and the moon.
Featured History 9 June 2021 Colette Noir, the French Heroine of Gwangju Noir was the only non-Korean who was investigated by the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship regarding the massacre in Gwangju.
Featured Newsletter 7 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, June 2021 Seoul hosts a major climate summit and commits to a more stringent carbon neutrality goals. A look into North Korea's new path.
Featured COVID-19 7 June 2021 South Korea's Vaccination Drive Picks up the Pace Since late May, the country has been pushing its vaccination rate by approximately 1% each day.
Featured Business & Economy 5 June 2021 Naver and Kakao Acquire Serialized Fiction Apps for the North American Market Naver acquired Wattpad; Kakao acquired Radish.
Featured Conservatives 4 June 2021 Incel Leader Aims for the Conservative Party Chair Despite having no electoral victory under his belt, Lee Jun-seok is leading the race for People Power Party chairman.
Featured Liberals 3 June 2021 Prosecutors Still Hunting for the Administration's Scalps Public perception be damned, the Public Prosecutors' Office continues to bring tendentious cases against the liberal government.
