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.
Featured Business & Economy 22 February 2023 Semiconductor Market Craters, Dragging Down South Korea’s Exports Foundry manufacturing is the sole bright spot in otherwise grim times for South Korea's semiconductor production.
Featured Newsletter 20 February 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, February 2023 For the first time in South Korean history, the Yoon Suk-yeol administration sought to arrest the sitting opposition leader.
Featured Society 20 February 2023 South Korean Democracy Backslides in EIU Survey Transition from Moon Jae-in to Yoon Suk-yeol led to a retreat of democracy in South Korea.
Liberals 17 February 2023 [Book Review] Mr. President: Putting on a Show for Moon Jae-in Credit: Medici Media. Despite their power and influence, presidential staff members tend to be anonymous bureaucrats. But former Blue House Secretary of Protocol Tak Hyeon-min 탁현민 전 청와대 의전비서관 has been a lightning rod for conservative criticism. The criticism came largely because he was good at his job: making his
Featured Society 16 February 2023 “Heating Bill Bomb” Detonates into Politics Doubled gas bills arriving shortly before the Lunar New Year are pressuring the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.
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