Featured Conservatives 21 November 2020 Lee Myung-bak's End of the Road: Imprisoned and Alone The Supreme Court finalized the 17-year prison sentence of the former president.
Featured Business & Economy 20 November 2020 Can’t Take it With You: Lee Kun-hee’s Estate Tax The estate of South Korea's richest man will be facing a very large tax bill.
Featured Bureaucracy 19 November 2020 Prosecutors vs Police: Major Reform in Criminal Investigation New presidential decree sharply curtails the prosecutors' investigative authority.
Featured Media 18 November 2020 Poll: Which Media Outlets do Koreans Trust? South Korea has among the lowest trust in media in the world.
Featured Newsletter 16 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2020 Remembering the labor movement sparked by Jeon Tae-il's death 50 years ago.
Featured Media 16 November 2020 How Seoul Got the New York Times The newspaper surprised many by choosing Seoul over Tokyo.
Featured Conservatives 13 November 2020 Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol Eyes Politics Yun is already a leader among potential conservatives for the next presidential candidate.
Featured United States 12 November 2020 Is the Joe Biden Administration Ready for the New Koreas? Both North and South Koreas are very different places from what Senator Biden might remember.
Featured Business & Economy 11 November 2020 Why are Fewer Koreans Studying in the United States? The decline in international students pre-dates the election of Donald Trump.
Featured Newsletter 9 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2020 The new US president-elect Joe Biden will face different Koreas since his last visit to the Peninsula.
Featured Liberals 9 November 2020 Poll: South Korea's Gen X Leads the Liberal Turn Voters in their 40s are making an impact with their numbers as well.
Featured Japan 7 November 2020 Suga Not Any Sweeter: Japan’s New Prime Minister Continues the History Denial Comfort Women memorial statue row and Japan's boycott of the summit with South Korea and China quickly dashed any hope for improved relations.
Featured Liberals 6 November 2020 Sour: Prosecutors Attempt to Fabricate a Corruption Case Against Liberal Politicians Bombshell expose implicates the Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol in targeted fake investigations.
Featured Business & Economy 5 November 2020 Big Hit IPO Soars, Then Slides The IPO of BTS's production company was the most hotly anticipated offering of this year.
Featured North Korea 4 November 2020 Poll: South Koreans Drift Further Away from Unification Majority of South Koreans do not want to form a single country with North Korea anymore.
Featured Newsletter 2 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2020 South Korea gears up for a potential administration change in the United States, and Lee Myung-bak goes to prison.
Featured Recommendations 2 November 2020 Graphic Novel on Imperial Japan’s Sexual Slavery Wins a Top Industry Award Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, based on true story, won the Harvey Award for Best International Book
Featured Key Players 31 October 2020 Obituary: Lee Kun-hee, Former Chairman of Samsung Group Lee's passing is an end of an era for "Korea, Inc."
Featured Society 30 October 2020 Korea's Public Trust Rises Amid the Pandemic South Korea is a low trust society, but the government's strong response to COVID-19 is changing that.
Featured Society 29 October 2020 Will the Criminalization of Abortion End in South Korea? The Constitutional Court held the abortion prohibition unconstitutional, but it is up to the government how much abortion will be allowed.
Featured Key Players 29 October 2020 Yoo Myung-hee: Korea's First Woman Trade Minister Eyes the Top WTO Spot If elected, Yoo would be the first woman director-general of the World Trade Organization.
Key Players 28 October 2020 Obituary: Lee Lee Hyo-jae, Pioneer of Feminism Lee Lee is best known for South Korea's first women's studies and the movement to use two surnames.
Featured Newsletter 26 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2020 Samsung's Lee Kun-hee is dead, while Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol's political future may be beginning.
Buzzword 26 October 2020 Buzzword: Bittoo Young Koreans are taking out loans to jump into the stock market.
Featured Op-Ed 23 October 2020 South Korea's Public Debt Cap: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish Not spending the resources today may mean less capability for addressing economic challenging tomorrow.
Featured North Korea 22 October 2020 North Korea's Response Against COVID-19: Savagery North Korea is relying on a wholesale shutdown enforced by a campaign of terror.
Featured Newsletter 20 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2020 Suga is not sweet, but Lime is definitely sour.
North Korea 20 October 2020 Poll: End the Korean War? South Koreans are Divided An even split for the formal end of the Korean War.
Featured Business & Economy 19 October 2020 No Love for Short Shorts: Korea’s Short-Selling Ban Continues World's broadest and longest short-sale ban may be feeding the stock market bubble.
Featured Key Players 16 October 2020 Kim Jong-in: Can the Most Interesting Man in Politics Save the Conservatives? The path of this blue-blooded politician has been a most unusual one.
Featured Society 15 October 2020 Poll: Who in Korea Likes Mr. Trot More than BTS? The world-beating seven-men group meets their match.
Featured COVID-19 14 October 2020 See Where the COVID-19 Wrecking Ball Hit Seoul’s Businesses A visual map of all the small businesses in Seoul that have recently closed their doors.
Featured Newsletter 12 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2020 In North Korea, a new big missile; in South Korea, renewed debate over abortion rights.
Featured Society 12 October 2020 The Politics of Contactless Chuseok Chuseok is normally a political high season, but this year, the biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
Featured Society 8 October 2020 South Korea's Poverty is Worse than It Looks, and Other Quantitative Insights Korea’s poor are much poorer than the official data might indicate. On the bright side, inequality and social mobility data are better than meets the eye.
Featured Key Players 7 October 2020 Lee Hae-chan Rides into the Sunset Former chairman of the Democratic Party may be the most important non-president politician in modern South Korean political history.
Featured Newsletter 5 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, September 2020 Although Chuseok is normally a political high season, Korea’s politicians and activists struggled to gain traction as the year’s biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
Featured Business & Economy 5 October 2020 Domesticity Businesses Thrive in the Pandemic As Koreans are compelled to spend more time at home, businesses that cater to home improvement are booming.
Featured Key Players 3 October 2020 Lee vs. Lee: Jostling for 2022 With conservatives in disarray, the two leading liberal candidates may be the main competition for the 2022 presidential election.
Featured Media 2 October 2020 Twice in a Row, Conservative Media Targets the Justice Minister’s Family Vigilance over influence-peddling is necessary, but why do only the children of Justice Ministers receive scrutiny?
Featured Business & Economy 1 October 2020 KFTC Enforcement is Coming for Google, Netflix, and Other Online Platforms Korea Fair Trade Commission is one of the world's most active antitrust regulators.
Featured Key Players 30 September 2020 Im Eun-jeong: Maverick Woman Prosecutor is the Prosecutors’ Office Watchdog Im emerged as a leading internal critic of the Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol.
Featured Newsletter 28 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2020 North Korea murdered a South Korean civil servant who attempted to defect; Chuseok holidays are here, and BTS gave a speech at the UN.
Featured COVID-19 28 September 2020 Corona Blues: Suicide Trends Take a Turn for the Worse The pandemic is particularly affecting the mental health of young women.
Featured Conservatives 25 September 2020 Conservatives Re-brand as the People Power Party In South Korean politics, the frequency of a party’s name change reflects the extent of the trouble they are in. By that measure, South Korea’s conservatives are in deep trouble.
Featured Breaking News 24 September 2020 Breaking News Analysis: North Korea Kills and Burns the Body of a Defecting South Korean Official The barbaric killing will inevitably damage the Moon administration's inter-Korean agenda, but is unlikely to make a lasting impact in the domestic politics.
Featured Business & Economy 23 September 2020 Inequality in the Times of COVID-19 The pandemic's economic impact is landing disproportionately on the women, children and the poor.
Featured Newsletter 21 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2020 The Moon administration bent the curve once again, but the chuseok holidays and conservative rallies are looming.
Business & Economy 21 September 2020 Contactless Kiosks are the New Digital Divide Photo: Unmanned kiosk ordering system in McDonald's in Seoul.Credit: The Blue Roof. Hankook Research 한국리서치 conducted an in-depth survey [https://hrcopinion.co.kr/archives/16318] of Koreans’ attitudes toward digital devices. South Korea is among the world’s most high tech societies, with 99.7% of the
Featured Healthcare 17 September 2020 Young Doctors Run Toward a Blind Alley South Korea may produce fewer than 100 doctors next year as a result of the doctors' strike.
