Featured Elections 26 April 2023 Democratic Party Leads Early in the 2024 Assembly Election The liberal opposition leads in every region except pockets of conservative strongholds.
Featured Newsletter 24 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol suggested supplying weapons to Ukraine in advance of his state visit to Washington DC - for which the president is brushing up on his English.
Featured Business & Economy 24 April 2023 Samsung Electronics Sees Earnings Crash, Slashes Chip Production Samsung Electronics’ quarterly profit is the lowest since Q1 2009, in the midst of the global financial crisis.
Featured History 22 April 2023 Grandson of Chun Doo-hwan Visits Gwangju for Atonement Chun U-won became the first member of the dictator Chun Doo-hwan’s family to visit Gwangju to apologize for the mass murder.
Featured Business & Economy 21 April 2023 US Demands for Semiconductor Secret Puts South Korean Makers Into a Difficult Spot Chips manufacturers must disclose sensitive technological data to qualify for CHIPS Act subsidy.
Featured Blue House 20 April 2023 National Security Advisor’s Resignation is a Sign of Turmoil for Yoon Administration’s Diplomacy Expect more unpredictable amateurism as veteran diplomats exit the presidential office.
Featured Conservatives 19 April 2023 Coup-plotting General Returns to South Korea After Five Years on the Run The ruling People Power Party had been attempting to whitewash the coup attempt.
Featured Newsletter 17 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2023 The US wiretap scandal continued to hamstring the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. One year out from the 2024 Assembly Election, the People Power Party’s new leadership is off to a poor start.
Featured Japan 17 April 2023 Japan Announces New History Textbooks Denying Forced Labor Textbooks also removed references to the 1923 Kanto Massacre that killed 6k Koreans.
Featured Conservatives 15 April 2023 Former Prosecutor in Roh Moo-hyun Investigation Brags About His Intimidation Tactics Lee In-gyu's proud description of issuing threats and intimidation is even more problematic than his characterization of Roh's investigation.
Featured Climate Change 14 April 2023 Yoon Administration's Irresponsible Climate Plan The plan does little for carbon reduction while simply kicking the can to the next administration.
Featured Courts 13 April 2023 Constitutional Court Upholds Prosecution Reform in a Defeat for the Yoon Administration Reckless challenge by Yoon's Justice Ministry made its legal argument even weaker.
Featured Liberals 12 April 2023 Indictment Against Lee Jae-myung Makes No Reference to Any Money Paid to Lee Prosecutors instead allege Lee gained "political benefit" by being able to keep his campaign promises.
Featured Newsletter 10 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2023 By-elections spell trouble for Yoon Suk-yeol and his People Power Party. Also: remembering Syngman Rhee’s mass murder.
Featured Society 10 April 2023 Most Korean Workers Cannot Fully Use Their Vacation Time: Data Workers in a weaker position within their workplace could barely take six days off a year.
Featured Media 8 April 2023 SBS Journalist Edited “Ladies” from Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar Speech Kim Gwang-hyeon was previously reprimanded for inserting an alt-right meme into his news footage.
Featured Liberals 7 April 2023 Grave of Lee Jae-myung’s Parents Desecrated in an Apparent Shamanistic Attack The vandalism was discovered in late February.
Featured Key Players 6 April 2023 Kim Tae-hyo: the No-Holds-Barred Ideologue Behind Yoon Administration’s Foreign Policy The fast-rising conservative intellectual in international affairs has shown a dangerous tendency to cut corners.
Featured Blue House 5 April 2023 Presidential Secretary of Protocol Quits Just Before a Critical Stretch of Diplomacy Kim Il-beom resigned just before Yoon Suk-yeol's visits to Tokyo and Washington.
Featured Newsletter 3 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, March 2023 National Security Advisor Kim Seong-han resigned, apparently because of a K-pop concert. The grandson of Chun Doo-hwan visited Gwangju to ask for forgiveness.
Featured Business & Economy 3 April 2023 South Korea's Current Account Deficit Hits Record Massive deficit in export is depleting South Korea's balance.
Featured Blue House 1 April 2023 One Year in, Yoon Suk-yeol Doesn’t Show Up to Work on Time, Doesn’t Read Yoon was late 14 out of 16 days he reported to the office, and purchased zero books in his first year.
Featured Bureaucracy 31 March 2023 Sharp Increase in Suicides During Prosecutorial Investigation: Data Most of the increase came from white collar professionals accused of bribery or embezzlement.
Featured Japan 30 March 2023 Seoul’s Capitulation in the Slave Labor Deal Repeats the Failure of 2015 Seoul's capitulation to unrepentant Tokyo ignores the victims' wishes as the US prematurely celebrates the deal.
Featured Conservatives 29 March 2023 Kim Gi-hyeon Elected as the New Ruling Party Chairman Yoon Suk-yeol strengthened his grip over the People Power Party while Lee Jun-seok faction was wiped out.
Featured Newsletter 27 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2023 The Yoon administration indicted the liberal leader Lee Jae-myung. Also: the Constitutional Court defeated the challenge against prosecution reform.
Featured Society 27 March 2023 When are You a Grown-up? South Koreans Say "28" "Emerging adulthood" becomes a social trend in South Korea.
Featured Recommendations 24 March 2023 In the Name of God: New Netflix Documentary Explores South Korea’s Cults A timely documentary considers the legacy of cults from the period of South Korea's economic growth.
Featured Liberals 23 March 2023 With the Arrest Warrant Vote, Lee Jae-myung Faces a Crossroads Unprecedented attempt to arrest the liberal leader exposed the cracks in the ranks.
Featured Society 22 March 2023 Record High Spending Private Tutoring Cost of education contributes to South Korea's low birth rate.
Featured Newsletter 20 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol visited Tokyo. Also: TBR’s profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Kim Tae-hyo, the driving force behind the slave laborer agreement with Japan.
Featured Bureaucracy 20 March 2023 Bullying Allegations Kneecaps the NOI Chief Nominee Strategic leak regarding the nominee's son may have given prosecutors a taste of their own medicine.
Featured Bureaucracy 17 March 2023 Tenfold Increase in Raid Warrants over 20 Years: Data The tenfold increase in raids stands in stark contrast to the number of arrest warrants, which declined by more than 80% over the same time period.
Featured Society 16 March 2023 Low Birth Rate Leads to Rural Extinction The impact of South Korea's record low birth rate is truly felt outside of its major cities.
Featured Society 15 March 2023 Court Rules Same Sex Couples May Register as De Facto Married In a major step toward legalizing gay marriage, court ruled that same sex couples may register each other as dependents in social welfare programs.
Featured Newsletter 13 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2023 The People Power Party elected new leadership, while the prosecutorial investigation against Lee Jae-myung claimed another life. Also: an analysis of South Korea’s capitulation in the slave labor agreement with Japan.
Featured History 13 March 2023 Twenty Years on, No Closure in the Daegu Subway Disaster Rather than improving public safety, some have learned to attack the victims.
Featured North Korea 11 March 2023 Survey: North Korea is Neither Enemy Nor Friend Among elementary, middle and high school students, opinion of North Korea straddled the middle.
Featured Business & Economy 10 March 2023 The Visible Hand of Yoon Suk-yeol Administration Yoon's avowed libertarian leanings is but a distant memory.
Featured Liberals 9 March 2023 Prosecutors' Absurd Charges Against Lee Jae-myung The argument that political gains amount to bribery makes a mockery of representative democracy.
Featured Conservatives 8 March 2023 Thae Yong-ho Falsely Claims Kim Il-Sung Caused the Jeju Massacre Former North Korean defector refused to retract his statement, based on his knowledge from North Korean education.
Featured Newsletter 6 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol capitulated to Japan’s refusal to pay reparations to former slave laborers, then blamed Korea for being colonized. Also: the shaky grip of Lee Jae-myung’s leadership over the liberal opposition.
Featured History 6 March 2023 Court Orders Reparations for Vietnamese War Crime Victims The court’s decision is the first ruling by the South Korean judiciary to recognize the country’s responsibility for war crimes committed in the course of the Vietnam War.
Featured Business & Economy 3 March 2023 SM Entertainment: Power Struggle at the Fountainhead of K-pop Battle between Kakao and HYBE may well determine the future of K-pop business.
Featured Courts 2 March 2023 Judicial Farce that is Gwak Sang-do's Daejang-dong Trial Even the conservatives are hard-pressed to defend the court's mental gymnastics.
Featured Starter Kit 1 March 2023 How Opinion Polls are Gamed in Election Time Internal party elections that utilize opinion polls directly and indirectly skew surveys.
Featured Newsletter 27 February 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, February 2023 The National Assembly rejected the Yoon administration’s arrest warrant for Lee Jae-myung. Also: a look at the population crisis and dire shortages of medical services in rural areas.
Featured Conservatives 27 February 2023 Court Establishes First Lady's Involvement in a Stock Pump-and-Dump Scheme First Lady Kim Geon-hee still has not faced any investigation in her involvement in the Deutsche Motors scheme while other conspirators were found guilty.
Featured Society 24 February 2023 [Obituary] Lim Bo-ra, 54, Presbyterian Pastor Who Stood for LGBTQ+ Rights Lim was declared a heretic for her advocacy for sexual minority.
Featured Media 23 February 2023 Media and Conservatives: a Corrupt Symbiosis Quid pro quo between the media and conservatives all but created the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.
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