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.
