Featured Op-Ed 7 December 2020 COVID Fatigue: Seoul Subway Data Shows Koreans are Tired of Social Distancing Pandemic fatigue is real and quantifiable.
Featured Starter Kit 5 December 2020 "We are not Machines": South Korea's Labor Movement and Progressive Politics The death of labor activist Jeon Tae-il gave birth to modern South Korea's labor movement.
United States 2 December 2020 Poll: US Still Leading in Popularity Among Neighboring Countries Despite the recent decline, South Koreans favor the United States than any of its neighbors.
Featured Media 18 November 2020 Poll: Which Media Outlets do Koreans Trust? South Korea has among the lowest trust in media in the world.
Featured Liberals 9 November 2020 Poll: South Korea's Gen X Leads the Liberal Turn Voters in their 40s are making an impact with their numbers as well.
Featured North Korea 4 November 2020 Poll: South Koreans Drift Further Away from Unification Majority of South Koreans do not want to form a single country with North Korea anymore.
Featured Society 30 October 2020 Korea's Public Trust Rises Amid the Pandemic South Korea is a low trust society, but the government's strong response to COVID-19 is changing that.
Featured Society 29 October 2020 Will the Criminalization of Abortion End in South Korea? The Constitutional Court held the abortion prohibition unconstitutional, but it is up to the government how much abortion will be allowed.
Key Players 28 October 2020 Obituary: Lee Lee Hyo-jae, Pioneer of Feminism Lee Lee is best known for South Korea's first women's studies and the movement to use two surnames.
Buzzword 26 October 2020 Buzzword: Bittoo Young Koreans are taking out loans to jump into the stock market.
Featured Society 15 October 2020 Poll: Who in Korea Likes Mr. Trot More than BTS? The world-beating seven-men group meets their match.
Featured Society 12 October 2020 The Politics of Contactless Chuseok Chuseok is normally a political high season, but this year, the biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
Featured Society 8 October 2020 South Korea's Poverty is Worse than It Looks, and Other Quantitative Insights Korea’s poor are much poorer than the official data might indicate. On the bright side, inequality and social mobility data are better than meets the eye.
Featured COVID-19 28 September 2020 Corona Blues: Suicide Trends Take a Turn for the Worse The pandemic is particularly affecting the mental health of young women.
Featured Business & Economy 23 September 2020 Inequality in the Times of COVID-19 The pandemic's economic impact is landing disproportionately on the women, children and the poor.
Business & Economy 21 September 2020 Contactless Kiosks are the New Digital Divide Photo: Unmanned kiosk ordering system in McDonald's in Seoul.Credit: The Blue Roof. Hankook Research 한국리서치 conducted an in-depth survey [https://hrcopinion.co.kr/archives/16318] of Koreans’ attitudes toward digital devices. South Korea is among the world’s most high tech societies, with 99.7% of the
Healthcare 2 September 2020 Doctors Strike Against More Doctors Help not wanted, even amid the pandemic.
Recommendations 25 August 2020 Elder Poverty and Subsistence-Labor South Korea's elder poverty is the country's least discussed problem. A new book makes it a little less so.