Featured Newsletter 19 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2024 Descendants of independence fighters boycotted Liberation Day events.
Featured Society 19 August 2024 Busan at Risk of Extinction: Data Even South Korea’s largest urban areas are not immune to the demographic forces.
Featured Foreign Policy 15 August 2024 The End of “Northern Diplomacy” The end of the most successful diplomatic initiative in South Korean history makes the inter-Korean division more dangerous and intractable.
Featured Business & Economy 14 August 2024 South Korea Became More Equal: Data South Korea was one of the most successful in combating income equality for the past two decades.
Featured Newsletter 13 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2024 The National Assembly tilted against the prosecutors.
Featured Business & Economy 13 August 2024 Danish Ban a Boon for Spicy Noodles Samgyang's stock performance has been spicier than Nvidia's.
Featured Climate Change 12 August 2024 Lovebug Infestations Unnerve Koreans New pest from the United States only emerged two years ago.
Featured North Korea 8 August 2024 Balloon Wars: Washington Steps into Its Own Mess The United States encouraged the entirely foreseeable inter-Korean slapfight.
Featured Blue House 7 August 2024 Roh Moo-hyun Again Rated the Most Beloved President: Data Three liberal presidents were in the top four.
Featured Business & Economy 6 August 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol Floats Tax Cuts Even as tax receipts are plummeting.
Featured Newsletter 5 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, July 2024 All of Yoon Suk-yeol’s troubles traced back, once again, to his wife.
Featured Society 5 August 2024 Miryang Sexual Assault Scandal Re-Surfaces Vigilantism is shining a new light on the 20-year-old crime.
Featured Blue House 1 August 2024 Now, for His Next Trick: Yoon Claims Discovery of Oil and Gas off the Coast of the Korean Peninsula The deeply unpopular administration is trying every desperation move.
Featured Bureaucracy 31 July 2024 Prosecutors and Police Drive People to Suicide: Data Suicide amid investigation occurs nearly once a month.
Featured Business & Economy 30 July 2024 Driven by Inflation, Read-to-Eat Food Sales Soar Cash-strapped workers resort to supermarket over convenience stores.
Featured Society 29 July 2024 String of Military Deaths Rock South Korea Retrograde military culture has led to a deathly streak.
Featured Blue House 25 July 2024 Diminishing Toehold for Yoon Suk-yeol’s Vetocracy Only eight legislators separate the president from powerlessness.
Featured Culture 23 July 2024 The Housemaid Voted as Greatest Korean Movie Ever More recent movies by women directors made it to the list of Korea's top 100 movies.
Featured Business & Economy 22 July 2024 Divorce of the Century Reveals Skeletons in the SK Group’s Closet Daughter of Roh Tae-woo extracted the returns for her father's slush fund.
Featured Recommendations 18 July 2024 From the Periphery to the Center: Moon Jae-in Looks Back on His Foreign Policy An essential book for South Korean liberals' outlook on foreign policy.
Featured Society 17 July 2024 Video Games are Korea’s Top Hobby: Data Birthplace of e-sports does it again.
Featured Business & Economy 16 July 2024 South Korea and China Seek to Take Their Trade Relationship to the Next Level The Yoon administration is taking steps to elevate the free trade agreement between the two countries.
Featured Bureaucracy 15 July 2024 KCSC Head Bangs Desk at Google Retrograde management style crosses the Pacific.
Featured Bureaucracy 11 July 2024 Lame Duck at the Gate: Yoon Dismisses His Prosecutors The final bulwark for the president is starting to show cracks.
Featured Society 10 July 2024 Koreans’ Favorite Dishes and Drinks: Data Kimchi jjigae and jjajangmyeon continue to reign supreme.
Featured Newsletter 8 July 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2024 Dysfunction continued in the National Assembly, while the US presidential election loomed large on the horizon.
Featured Business & Economy 8 July 2024 Massive Error in Housing Statistics from the Land Ministry Two cities' worth of housing were not counted in advance of the General Election.
Featured Bureaucracy 4 July 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Prosecutors Fail to Deliver on Targeted Investigations The president is failing to achieve the only thing its supports want.
Featured Newsletter 1 July 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2024 A deadly fire broke out, killing migrant workers. Also: far-right YouTubers in the Yoon administration.
Featured Business & Economy 1 July 2024 The LINE Affair Boils Over to Politics Yoon Suk-yeol administration showing remarkable lack of urgency.
Featured Newsletter 25 June 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2024 Vladimir Putin visited Kim Jong Un, spelling an end to South Korea’s Northern Diplomacy.
Featured Newsletter 18 June 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2024 The United States stepped in to de-escalate tensions between the two Koreas that it had stoked.
Featured Media 14 June 2024 Another Low in Press Freedom, Another Raid by the Yoon Administration EBS is raided over a cup of coffee.
Featured Blue House 13 June 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Year 2: Hoping for a Slow Decline With the General Election defeat, Yoon can only hope that his presidency does not end abruptly.
Featured Newsletter 10 June 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, June 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol claimed to have found oil under the sea, while North Korea sent more poop balloons over the DMZ.
Featured Business & Economy 10 June 2024 Small Restaurants Become Big Business Some out-earn major chain restaurants with lower cost and online expansion.
Featured Society 7 June 2024 Sense of Gender Roles Goes Backwards: Data Young people's regression in gender roles coincides with the rise of incel politics.
Featured Blue House 6 June 2024 Marine Corporal’s Death is a Growing Liability for Yoon Suk-yeol Presidential intervention is alleged in a cover-up of a drowning death of a marine corporal who was given no safety equipment.
Featured Business & Economy 5 June 2024 Japanese Government Attacks South Korea-Owned LINE Messenger App Tokyo is pressuring the messenger app to oust South Korea's Naver from the joint venture.
Featured Newsletter 3 June 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, May 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol made history on vetoes, while North Korea floated excrement across the DMZ.
Featured Culture 3 June 2024 Min Hee-jin Breaks K-pop "If you want to come at me, come at my face, don’t talk behind my back. I’m just an ignorant art school bitch."
Featured Key Players 31 May 2024 Hong Se-hwa, 77, a Leading Progressive Thinker The socialist refugee in Paris became one of South Korea's foremost progressive thinkers.
Featured Blue House 30 May 2024 The Hidden Line in the Office of the President The clandestine influence of the First Lady Kim Geon-hee.
Featured Liberals 29 May 2024 Who are the Rebuilding Korea Party Voters? An alliance of traditional liberals and wealthy progressives.
Featured Newsletter 27 May 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, May 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol vetoed the bill authorizing a special investigation into the death of a marine corporal, as further evidence of presidential interference came to light. Also: Moon Jae-in publishes a memoir on foreign policy.
Featured Business & Economy 27 May 2024 Samsung Orders Executives to Give Up Weekends Semiconductor sales may be in the doldrums, but is six-day work week a solution?
