Featured Society 19 July 2023 Most South Koreans Oppose Same Sex Marriage: Data Only about 25% is in favor of gay marriage.
Featured Newsletter 17 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol visited Ukraine, while back in South Korea 54 died or went missing in nationwide flash floods. Also: the media circus of North Korean defectors.
Featured Society 17 July 2023 “Killer Questions” in the College Admission Exam A new buzzword with an unclear definition.
Featured Society 15 July 2023 Women’s National Team Gears up for FIFA World Cup 2023 Women's football legend Ji So-yeon leads the Lady Taegeuk Warriors.
Featured Business & Economy 14 July 2023 US Hedge Fund Prevails Against South Korean Government in Investor-State Dispute Elliott Associates won in a claim involving Park Geun-hye administration's intervention for Samsung's third generation succession.
Featured Elections 13 July 2023 2024 Assembly Election Viewer's Guide The state of play with nine months to go.
Featured Business & Economy 12 July 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Loose Lips Shake the CSAT Tutoring Industry Presidential intervention on college entrance exam leaves students and parents confused.
Featured Newsletter 10 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2023 First Lady Kim Geon-hee was mired in a real estate scandal involving a new planned highway. Also: the return of the Lee Myung-bak era.
Featured Media 10 July 2023 Chosun Ilbo: the Least Trusted Name in News South Korea's largest newspaper leads the way in the Korean public's distrust of the news.
Featured Culture 7 July 2023 Poets, Authors Dragged out of Seoul International Book Fair Presidential security removed protesting writers.
Featured Japan 6 July 2023 Fukushima Radioactive Wastewater Adds Another Millstone Around Yoon’s Neck Planned release of wastewater is driving South Koreans to hoard sea salt.
Featured Business & Economy 5 July 2023 Capital Control Regulations Relaxed South Korea sheds the developmental era restrictions on foreign currency exchange.
Featured Newsletter 3 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol called liberals “anti-state forces” while appointing a new Unification Minister. Also: the state of South Korea’s LGBTQ+ movement.
Featured Conservatives 3 July 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol Administration Boycotts the June Struggle Memorial Yoon became the first South Korean president to refuse to honor the country's transition to democracy.
Featured Society 30 June 2023 South Korea’s First Transgender Athlete in an Official Competition Na Hwa-rin, a cyclist, won her event in the Gangwon-do Provincial Games.
Featured Courts 29 June 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Unconstitutional Court-Packing The president's threat to withhold Supreme Court justice appointment is a direct challenge to the constitutional separation of powers.
Featured Elections 28 June 2023 Early Look at Assembly Election, Presidential Election People Power Party is in a hole, while Lee Jae-myung leads the polls for the favored next president.
Featured Newsletter 26 June 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol visited Paris and Hanoi while Pride Parades faced government interference. Also: TBR’s viewer’s guide for the 2024 Assembly Election, now just nine months away.
Featured Business & Economy 26 June 2023 South Korea’s Per Capita GNI Plummets, Falls Behind Taiwan’s. Yet another economic indicator blinking red.
Featured Society 23 June 2023 Workplace Sex Discrimination: By the Numbers South Korean women are hired less than men, promoted less than men, and paid less than men with the same occupation and seniority.
