Featured Liberals 15 February 2021 Is Lee Jae-myung the New Favorite to be the Next President? The Gyeonggi-do Province Governor is building a strong lead in the polls, but don't sleep on the third option.
Featured Conservatives 5 February 2021 Supreme Court Finalizes 22 Years in Prison for Park Geun-hye President Moon Jae-in rejected the call for pardoning Park.
Featured Blue House 21 January 2021 Moon Jae-in's Fifth Year: Can He Stick the Landing? The president is in a better position than his predecessors, but South Korean politics is where best laid plans go to waste.
Featured Blue House 18 January 2021 Polls Galore: TBR's Round-Up of All the Year End 2020 Polls A look into the favored next president and Seoul/Busan mayors.
Featured COVID-19 5 January 2021 Crack in the Armor: South Korea’s Pandemic Response Slips in the Third Wave The Korean government has been walking the tightrope of fighting the virus and saving the economy. Now, it is at risk of falling off.
Featured Blue House 4 January 2021 Happy New Year: the Electoral Calendar for 2021 Yun Seok-yeol's emergence as a leading conservative presidential candidate is the trend to watch.
Featured Blue House 21 December 2020 It’s the Real Estate, Stupid: the Moon Jae-in Administration at the Crossroads TBR said in August: “The real estate issue . . . may well define the course of the Moon administration’s remaining two years.” Four months later, here we are.
Featured Blue House 4 December 2020 The Corruption Investigation Office: Ready to Launch The fight to establish has been fierce, with 29 lawmakers indicted for interfering with the legislative process.
Featured Trivia 23 November 2020 Hiking Route for Presidential Assassins Now Open to Public North Korean terrorists used the path behind the Blue House to infiltrate Seoul 52 years ago.
Featured Conservatives 21 November 2020 Lee Myung-bak's End of the Road: Imprisoned and Alone The Supreme Court finalized the 17-year prison sentence of the former president.
Trivia 1 September 2020 The President's Summer Reading The books the president reads often become bestsellers, as the public seeks to gauge the mind of their leader.
Featured Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Defusing the South Korea’s Jeonse Time Bomb South Korea’s unique method of housing lease that acts as an unregulated capital market.
Key Players 23 August 2020 Kim Hyun-chong: Elite Trade Negotiator is Now a NatSec Architect Deputy National Security Advisor Kim Hyun-chong is establishing himself as one of the most important voices in the Moon administration’s policies for national security and foreign policy.