Featured Culture 9 February 2024 Dog Meat Outlawed A rare display of bipartisanship for a fading habit.
Featured Liberals 8 February 2024 Knife Attack Against Lee Jae-myung Casts a Pall on South Korean Democracy The assassination attempt on the liberal opposition leader is a callback to the dictatorship era.
Featured Blue House 7 February 2024 First Lady Continues to be a Political Liability: Data Even conservatives are turning on the First Lady as she was seen accepting bribes on camera.
Featured Newsletter 5 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, January 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol exercises another veto. The National Assembly wrangled over how to elect its proportional representation members.
Featured Business & Economy 5 February 2024 Taeyoung E&C Applies for Debt Restructuring Taeyoung is the largest company to face insolvency in the recent credit crunch.
Featured Culture 2 February 2024 Lee Seon-gyun, 48, Star Actor of "Parasite" Overzealous drug prosecution and media hounding drove Lee to suicide
Featured Blue House 1 February 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Year of Frustration Mired in historically low popularity, the president now faces the all-important General Election.
Featured Newsletter 30 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2024 Yet another legislator was assaulted while Yoon Suk-yeol and Han Dong-hun attempt to cover up their feud.
Featured Culture 30 January 2024 Yu Jae-seok Continues His Reign South Korea's most popular comedian tops the chart for the 16th time in 17 years.
Featured Foreign Policy 29 January 2024 Netherlands Summons South Korean Ambassador over Excessive Demands before State Visit Yoon administration's diplomatic gaffes will never end.
Featured Newsletter 22 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2024 Assembly Member was gagged and forcibly removed for criticizing the president.
Featured Elections 18 January 2024 The General Election Scramble Begins Yoon Suk-yeol and Lee Jae-myung strengthen their grips while outsiders seek a third party bid.
Featured Society 17 January 2024 Rich People and Their Pets: Data Wealthier people with bigger homes own pets.
Featured Business & Economy 16 January 2024 Twitch Ends Service in South Korea, Re-igniting Net Neutrality Debate Massive network usage fee forced the streaming site to leave South Korea.
Featured Newsletter 15 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, January 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol began mulling for a veto against the law mandating special investigation for the Itaewon Disaster. Also: Han Dong-hun, the man of the hour.
Featured Blue House 15 January 2024 First Lady Caught in a Comedy of Errors Featuring a Luxury Bag A blatant violation of bribery laws and protocol.
Featured Announcement 14 January 2024 To Our Subcribers: TBR's Next Stage Thanks to your support, The Blue Roof has become a meaningful presence in shaping the global narrative. This year, we will begin our evolution.
Featured Society 12 January 2024 A Movie About the Chun Doo-hwan Coup Sweeps the Box Office Hwang Jeong-min's portrayal of the venal dictator is a show-stopper.
Featured Blue House 11 January 2024 The Expo Bid: Yoon Suk-yeol’s Failures in Miniature Utter inability to perceive reality, aided by sycophantic media.
Featured Society 9 January 2024 Budget Cuts Threaten Essential Services Nearly 60% of rural areas will have no police presence.
Featured Newsletter 8 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2024 Lee Jae-myung barely survived a knife attack, while Yoon Suk-yeol vetoed a special prosecutor investigation into his wife.
Featured Conservatives 8 January 2024 Lee Jun-seok’s New Party Gains Traction: Poll Incel leader is peeling off a meaningful slice of conservative voters.
Featured Blue House 5 January 2024 The Ridiculous Pants of Yoon Suk-yeol A premeditated crime against fashion.
Featured Bureaucracy 4 January 2024 Growing Public Hostility Against Prosecutors: Data Overwhelming majority questions the prosecutors' impartiality.
Featured Business & Economy 3 January 2024 Koreans Retire Too Early with Not Enough Money More than half of adults have not begun preparing for retirement.
Featured North Korea 2 January 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol Flirts with War Scrapping the September 19 Agreement bodes ill for inter-Korean peace.
Featured Breaking News 1 January 2024 Breaking News: Lee Jae-myung Stabbed in Busan Former presidential candidate against Yoon Suk-yeol was stabbed in the neck.
Featured Business & Economy 29 December 2023 Chief Finance Regulator to be Sacked for Dragging Feet on Short Selling Ban "We might as well be going back to 1992."
Featured Conservatives 28 December 2023 People Power Party's Tug-of-War In Yo-han's Reform Committee has been ineffective in pushing out the party's old guard.
Featured Media 27 December 2023 Jack-Booted Censorship at KBS New Yoon appointee wasted no time to sack journalists critical of the administration.
Featured Society 26 December 2023 Long-Suffering LG Twins Win the Korean Series Bold investment by team owner Ku Gwang-mo paid dividends.
Featured Newsletter 20 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2023 In the last newsletter of 2023, a look back at Yoon Suk-yeol's year of frustration.
Featured Conservatives 15 December 2023 Lee Jun-seok and An Cheol-su Visit the Same Restaurant The walls are thinner than you think.
Featured Foreign Policy 14 December 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol has Little to Show for His Jetset Life Signs of lame duck presidency at Year 2.
Featured Society 13 December 2023 Immigrant and Multiethnic Children Live Outside of Seoul: Data Diverse countrywide, monoethnic metropolis.
Featured Newsletter 11 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2023 The scramble for the April 2024 General Election began in earnest.
Featured Business & Economy 11 December 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol Administration Abruptly Reverses on Disposables Four years of planning to end the use of disposables was scrapped indefinitely.
Featured Conservatives 7 December 2023 People Power Party Doubles Down on Real Estate Trying to recover from the by-election loss, the conservative ruling party sticks to what it knows.
Featured Society 6 December 2023 Childcare Leave Underutilized, Especially Among Men: Data Even among public officials with job security, men rarely take a childcare leave.
Featured Newsletter 4 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, November 2023 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s bid for the 2030 World Expo ended in an embarrassing flop. Also: a new movie about the military coup of Chun Doo-hwan is a box-office smash.
Featured Business & Economy 4 December 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol Attacks Kakao The president is directly involved in attacking South Korea's "super app" company.
Society 1 December 2023 Bizarre Fraud Against Olympic Medalist Grips the Nation Fake chaebol heir who wanted to duel Elon Musk claimed to be a transgender man with a testicular transplant.
Featured Media 30 November 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Media Enforcers Come for the Internet Partisan appointments and procedural gamesmanship lead to an unprecedented attempt to regulate political speech.
Featured Society 29 November 2023 More Immigrants, but from Different Places Fewer Korean Chinese, more Southeast Asians.
Featured Newsletter 27 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2023 North Korea repudiated the critical September 19 Inter-Korean Military Agreement. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s trouser troubles.
Featured National Assembly 27 November 2023 Yong Hye-in Shines in the Legislative Audit The public is more attuned to the National Assembly.
Featured Conservatives 24 November 2023 Widespread Election Denial Among Conservatives: Data Yoon Suk-yeol administration is fanning the flame.
Featured Society 23 November 2023 The Itaewon Disaster, One Year Later Gross abdication of duty and victim-blaming.
