Featured Business & Economy 8 November 2023 High Inflation Pressures the Chuseok Table The cost of food and other essentials are rising rapidly.
Featured Bureaucracy 3 November 2023 Finance Ministry Wildly Inaccurate in Budget Deficit Estimate Persistent errors raise suspicions of the bureaucracy's partisanship.
Business & Economy 20 October 2023 Record Number of Construction Company Failures The number of construction company bankruptcies is the highest since 2006.
Featured Business & Economy 11 October 2023 Household Debt Creeps Up Again Mortgages taken out by investors attempting to buy the debt is raising household debt to a dangerous level.
Featured Business & Economy 29 September 2023 Budget Deficit Leads to Risk of Greater Exchange Rate Volatility The Finance Ministry is using the exchange rate stabilization fund to fill the hole in the budget.
Featured Business & Economy 15 September 2023 Bank of Korea Butts Heads with Financial Supervisory Service FSS head Lee Bok-hyeon, close associate of the president, is pressuring the central bank to keep the interest rate low.
Featured Business & Economy 13 September 2023 Samsung to Re-Join Federation of Korean Industries The move may signal a new era of government commandeering the chaebols.
Featured Business & Economy 30 August 2023 “Boneless Condos” Spark Fears of Collapse Collapsed parking structure at a luxury condo had no steel reinforcements.
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 Business & Economy 18 August 2023 Did a Ragtag Group of South Korean Scientists Discover a Room-Temperature Superconductor? Probably not.
Featured Business & Economy 14 August 2023 Minimum Wage Rises by 2.5% for 2024 The meager increase is lower than the rate of inflation.
Featured Media 2 August 2023 KBS Declares Emergency in Response to Change in Fee Collection Change in the fee collection method may lead to 80% decline in revenue.
Featured Business & Economy 31 July 2023 Small Businesses Pushed to the Brink: Data Business owners want to close shop soon while cashing out retirement savings early.
Featured Business & Economy 28 July 2023 Credit Co-op’s Failure Raises Bank Run Fears Saemaeul Co-op's unusual regulatory structure made it vulnerable to bad loans.
Featured Business & Economy 21 July 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol Administration Demands Lower Food Prices No atheist in a foxhole, and no libertarian in advance of an election.
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 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 Business & Economy 5 July 2023 Capital Control Regulations Relaxed South Korea sheds the developmental era restrictions on foreign currency exchange.
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.
