Featured Newsletter 19 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2025 Lee Jae-myung expanded his tent while Kim Mun-su struggled. The presidential election is 15 days away.
Featured Elections 19 May 2025 First Polls for the June 3 Presidential Election Lee Jae-myung is the runaway leader.
Featured Business & Economy 16 May 2025 Trump Tariffs Hit South Korea Tariff also affects Korean manufacturers who relocated their production out of China.
Featured Blue House 15 May 2025 Burning in Stasis The most consequential week in South Korea’s democratic history.
Featured Business & Economy 14 May 2025 Financial Cushion Gets Thinner for the Middle Class: Data Savings are the lowest in five years.
Featured Newsletter 12 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2025 The judiciary declared a truce while the People Power Party began circling the drain. The presidential election is 22 days away, as the official campaign period began.
Featured Business & Economy 12 May 2025 Short Selling Returns to a Battered Stock Market Short selling was banned as a way to pander to day traders.
Featured Newsletter 6 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, April 2025 The Supreme Court declared a total war of institutions.
Featured Conservatives 6 May 2025 People Power Party Promotes Lee Jae-myung Lee's book of quotes by the PPP became an unexpected hit.
Featured Newsletter 29 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2025 Lee Jae-myung secured the Democratic Party nomination. Also: prosecutors indicted Moon Jae-in.
Featured Blue House 25 April 2025 Wildfire Totally Not Because of a Shamanistic Ritual, Says the Presidential Office Going out of its way to attack a fringe conspiracy theory would do little to dispel the persistent association between shamanism and the Yoon administration.
Featured Conservatives 24 April 2025 Constitutional Court’s Han Deok-su Ruling Sows Bewilderment The ruling is fueling wild speculations as to Yoon’s fate, as the Constitutional Court remains inscrutable with its conclave-like secrecy.
Featured Business & Economy 23 April 2025 Hanwha Aerospace Issues New Shares, Diluting Shareholders The new share issuance amounts to a trash-and-cash scheme.
Featured Newsletter 22 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2025 The criminal trial of Yoon Suk-yeol began.
Featured Business & Economy 21 April 2025 Number of Coffee Shops Declines for the First Time: Data The explosive growth of South Korea’s coffee scene may be hitting a wall.
Featured Elections 18 April 2025 Kim Eo-jun’s Polling House Readies for Election Flower Research plans to spend more than KRW 1b (USD 690k) in the prospective election season.
Featured Society 16 April 2025 Tutoring Industry Gets Bigger, Younger The private tutoring industry has managed to grow in part by targeting ever-younger students.
Featured Newsletter 15 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2025 Parties began gearing up for the snap presidential election.
Featured Bureaucracy 14 April 2025 Police, Presidential Security Hold Out for Yoon Return Pro-Yoon personnel within the bureaucracy are carrying on the fight