Featured Newsletter 21 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2024 North Korea sent its soldiers to Russia.
Featured Business & Economy 21 October 2024 Financial Investment Income Tax Becomes a Hot Potato The new tax was a landmark legislation for the Moon Jae-in administration.
Featured Society 18 October 2024 Greater Pension Coverage, But Still a Ways to Go: Data Gaps in coverage fall most heavily on those who can least afford them.
Featured Liberals 17 October 2024 What Lies Ahead of Lee Jae-myung The liberal leader is considered the presumptive next president, but the road ahead remains unpredictable.
Featured Business & Economy 16 October 2024 Public and Private Sector Debts Skyrocket Plummeting tax receipts led to a massive increase in government debt.
Featured Newsletter 15 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2024 Author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Featured Japan 14 October 2024 Korean School Wins Japanese High School Baseball Championship The tiny school that faced closure was saved by baseball.
Featured Bureaucracy 11 October 2024 Incels in the Police The police has taken the side of young men's paranoid misogyny.
Featured History 10 October 2024 The Liberation Day Schism South Korean right-wing's historical revisionism went from hints to explicit initiatives.
Featured Society 9 October 2024 Pilot Program for Filipina Domestic Workers Raises Labor Abuse Concerns Imported "caregivers" are exposed to wage theft and abuse.
Featured Newsletter 8 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2024 The Office of the President sprung a navy’s worth of leaks.
Featured Business & Economy 8 October 2024 Workers Gave Up Summer Vacation Because of Cost: Data Credit: Public domain. Summer is typically a time for rest and relaxation, but South Korea’s sluggish economy has caused many to put their plans on hold. According to a survey of workers conducted by Global Research from May 31 to June 10 and released on August 4, only 48.
Featured Newsletter 30 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2024 First Lady Kim Geon-hee found herself in yet another kind of trouble.
Featured Newsletter 17 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol faces a downcast Chuseok holiday.
Featured Business & Economy 13 September 2024 Koreans Intrigued by AI: Data Public interest in AI has jumped significantly.
Featured Bureaucracy 12 September 2024 Prosecutors Face Down the End of the Road Prosecutors created the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. Will they fall with it?
Featured Business & Economy 10 September 2024 Massive EV Battery Fire Raises Safety Concerns Can EV be safely stored in South Korea's dense parking lots?
Featured Newsletter 9 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol spurned the National Assembly, while his foreign policy advisor patronized Kamala Harris.
Featured Culture 9 September 2024 Olympics: South Korea Outperforms Expectations Unexpectedly strong result came with allegations of mistreating athletes.
Featured Society 6 September 2024 Love Not Enough to Overcome Political Differences Majority said they would not date or marry anyone whose politics are different from theirs.