Featured Newsletter 16 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol administration faced the fallout from a landslide loss in the Gangseo-gu District by-election. Also: a primer on South Korea and Israel.
Featured Society 13 October 2023 Season of Cheese: Festival in Imsil-gun Now, for something light-hearted.
Featured Breaking News 11 October 2023 Breaking News: Democratic Party Scores a Thumping Victory in the Gangseo-gu District By-Election The by-election is seen as the preview for the upcoming Assembly Election.
Featured Business & Economy 11 October 2023 Household Debt Creeps Up Again Mortgages taken out by investors attempting to buy the debt is raising household debt to a dangerous level.
Featured Newsletter 9 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2023 The National Assembly rejected the Chief Justice nomination for the first time in 35 years. Also: the implications of a Gangseo-gu District by-election.
Featured United States 9 October 2023 Low Trust in the US Election System: Survey Joe Biden remains more popular than Donald Trump among Koreans.
Featured Media 6 October 2023 Prosecutors Raid Liberal Media Outlets Reporting on Prosecutors' Misuse of Budget The International Federation of Journalists denounced the raids, calling them “intimidation and legal harassment”.
Featured Bureaucracy 5 October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Retrograde Cabinet Appointments Openly advocating for military coup is not a dealbreaker for this administration.
Featured Buzzword 4 October 2023 "Cartel": Yoon Suk-yeol's New Favorite Word "Did you just learn that word? Because you tend to say it a lot."
Featured Newsletter 3 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2023 Lee Jae-myung avoided arrest while Yoon Suk-yeol held a military parade. South Korea celebrated Chuseok.
Featured Society 2 October 2023 Polls About Polls: Data Koreans generally trust surveys, but not the ones about politics.
Featured Business & Economy 29 September 2023 Budget Deficit Leads to Risk of Greater Exchange Rate Volatility The Finance Ministry is using the exchange rate stabilization fund to fill the hole in the budget.
Featured Blue House 28 September 2023 Leaks Upon Leaks: Yoon Suk-yeol’s Incontinent Presidency Sensitive information flowing out of the Office of the President shows Yoon Suk-yeol's weak presidency.
Featured Conservatives 27 September 2023 Conservative Party Chief Calls for Death Penalty Against Liberal Journalists The Yoon Suk-yeol administration continues its assault against the media.
Featured Newsletter 25 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2023 The National Assembly approved the arrest of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung.
Featured Japan 25 September 2023 Overwhelmingly Negative Reaction to Fukushima Radioactive Wastewater Release Majority of conservatives are also concerned about radiation poisoning.
Featured History 22 September 2023 Tokyo Ignores the Kanto Massacre Centennial Yoon Suk-yeol also made no remarks.
Featured History 21 September 2023 Hong Beom-do Bust Controversy: a Right-Wing Brain Rot Yoon Suk-yeol stokes an entirely unnecessary controversy that alienates his own supporters.
Featured Society 20 September 2023 More Women Sign up for Egg Freezing: Data Seoul city government will subsidize the cost of the procedure to boost birth rate.
Featured Newsletter 19 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2023 Kim Jong Un met with Vladimir Putin while prosecutors raided newsrooms. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s retrograde cabinet re-shuffle.
Featured Blue House 18 September 2023 The Presidential Office Has No Org Chart Incredible, but also not surprising.
Featured Business & Economy 15 September 2023 Bank of Korea Butts Heads with Financial Supervisory Service FSS head Lee Bok-hyeon, close associate of the president, is pressuring the central bank to keep the interest rate low.
Featured Key Players 14 September 2023 Lee Dong-gwan, Media Enforcer Chief regulator of television news is supposed to be neutral. But not Lee Dong-gwan.
Featured Business & Economy 13 September 2023 Samsung to Re-Join Federation of Korean Industries The move may signal a new era of government commandeering the chaebols.
Featured Newsletter 11 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol met with China’s PM, while Kim Jong Un weighed a trip to Russia. Also: What the leaky presidential office says about Yoon’s grip on the presidency.
Featured Conservatives 11 September 2023 Justice Ministry Bickers with Judith Butler Butler criticized Han Dong-hun's opposition to same-sex marriage; Han reacted testily.
Featured Society 8 September 2023 Still a Long Way to Go for Gay Rights: Data CEOs and celebrities are acceptable, but not babysitters and school teachers.
Featured Climate Change 7 September 2023 How Climate Change Alters South Korea Tropical fruits grow in the southern parts of Korea while flash floods claim more lives.
Featured Newsletter 4 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, August 2023 The Military Academy waded into a controversy by attempting to remove statutes of independence fighters from its campus. Also: the centennial of the Kanto Massacre.
Featured Blue House 1 September 2023 Welcome to Yongsan Children’s Garden; Your Choices are Yoon Suk-yeol or Blank "What is this, North Korea?"
Featured Society 31 August 2023 Jamboree Roundup: the Most Disgraceful K-Pop Concert An event as retrograde as the one in the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship.
Featured Business & Economy 30 August 2023 “Boneless Condos” Spark Fears of Collapse Collapsed parking structure at a luxury condo had no steel reinforcements.
Featured Newsletter 29 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2023 Japan began releasing radioactive wastewater from Fukushima. Also: Lee Dong-gwan, media enforcer.
Featured North Korea 28 August 2023 "Asian Schindler" Under Investigation for Molestation Yet another North Korean defector story goes awry.
Featured Business & Economy 25 August 2023 Will a Tax Cut Boost South Korea's Birth Rate? Yet another way to justify tax cut for the rich.
Featured Society 24 August 2023 The Jamboree from Hell Under the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, a major international event ends in tears.
COVID-19 23 August 2023 Public Wary of a New COVID Wave: Data Strong majority opposes relaxation of masking requirements.
Featured Newsletter 22 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol met with Joe Biden and Kishida Fumio at Camp David. Also: Climate change comes for South Korea.
Featured Society 21 August 2023 South Korea Slips Backwards in Gender Equality: Data No other advanced industrialized country showed this type of regression.
Featured Society 19 August 2023 Sexist Attacks Against a Videogame Illustrator Unfortunately, the incels are at it again.
Featured Business & Economy 18 August 2023 Did a Ragtag Group of South Korean Scientists Discover a Room-Temperature Superconductor? Probably not.
Featured North Korea 17 August 2023 The Paradox of Division: Seventy Years since the Armistice The Korean War is a forever war because the two Koreas cannot let it end.
Featured Courts 16 August 2023 Constitutional Court Rejects Interior Minister Impeachment over the Itaewon Disaster The result was expected, as the court previously held that incompetence was not grounds for impeachment.
Featured Newsletter 14 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2023 The embarrassing mismanagement of the World Scout Jamboree ended with one of the most disgraceful K-pop concerts in history.
Featured Business & Economy 14 August 2023 Minimum Wage Rises by 2.5% for 2024 The meager increase is lower than the rate of inflation.
Featured Society 12 August 2023 Elementary School Teacher’s Suicide Raises Questions About Bullying by Rich Parents Teachers' union blamed helicopter parents; Yoon Suk-yeol blamed North Korea.
Featured Blue House 11 August 2023 South Koreans Want the First Lady Out of Sight: Data Kim Geon-hee has been a major reason for her husband's historically low popularity.
Featured Conservatives 10 August 2023 Flood Deaths: Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous than Others Routine management issues handled competently under liberal governments become deadly disasters under conservative administrations.
Featured Blue House 9 August 2023 Spiritual Advisor Inspected Potential Presidential Residence Site: Police Conservative spokesman defended the bearded mystic as "the leading authority in future prediction studies.'
Featured Newsletter 7 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2023 utter mismanagement of the World Scout Jamboree shut down the event early as thousands of scouts suffered from heat stroke and bug bites.
