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.
