Featured Conservatives 26 February 2021 Conservatives’ Aimless Attack on ‘Nuclear Zero’ Nuclear power is not exactly a populist issue, but the conservatives are trying to make it into one.
Featured Conservatives 25 February 2021 About Face: Conservatives Now in Favor of the New Airport in Busan While Some Continue to Hold Out Support for liberals in the Busan area has been surging since they proposed the new airport.
Featured Starter Kit 24 February 2021 Starter Kit: a Brief History of Primaries in South Korea The inter-party election to select the candidates who would run in the final election is a recent feature in Korean politics, and is localized in a peculiar way.
Featured Newsletter 22 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, February 2021 Politics are threatening to derail the COVID-19 vaccination program, and what young liberal voters want.
Society 22 February 2021 First Government Recommendation in Favor of Transgender Right in the Military Staff Sergeant Byeon Hee-su 변희수 was discharged after undergoing a gender transition procedure.
Featured Society 20 February 2021 “Outsourcing Death”: the Plight of the Workers in the Pandemic Tech Era Sorting boxes in the subscription economy comes at the cost of lives.
Featured National Assembly 19 February 2021 Justice Party in Disarray The minor leftist party is mired in sexual harassment and illegal termination scandals.
Featured Liberals 18 February 2021 Let Busan Fly: the Democrats' Southeastern Strategy The liberals' relentless pursuit of Busan voters is dividing the conservatives.
Featured Newsletter 16 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, February 2021 Happy Lunar New Year! Our look at Seoul's infrastructure projects, and the profile of Moon Chung-in.
Business & Economy 16 February 2021 Poll: South Korean Public Divided on Samsung Heir Prison Term Sympathy for Lee Jae-yong was split along the partisan line.
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 Key Players 12 February 2021 Poll: Jeong Se-gyun Rising as the Liberals' Third Option for the President The liberal voters may still be searching for options beyond the two leaders.
Featured Key Players 11 February 2021 Kang Kyung-wha's Valedictorian Departure The trailblazing Foreign Minister exits the stage.
Featured Business & Economy 10 February 2021 LG Looking to Quit the Smartphone Business An ignominious end for the company that once led the cellphone trend as recently as mid-2000s.
Featured Newsletter 8 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2021 Conservatives' obsession with nuclear power, and the wild world of South Korean style primary elections.
History 8 February 2021 The Torture Death that Sparked South Korea’s Democratization Park Jong-cheol was 22 when he perished in Seoul's black site.
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 Key Players 4 February 2021 Kim Eo-jun: South Korea's Most Important Political Pundit The bushy haired podcaster has been the leader of young Koreans who abandoned the traditional media.
Featured COVID-19 3 February 2021 Celltrion on Its Way to Coronavirus Cure Celltrion is the largest South Korean pharmaceutical company by market cap.
Featured Newsletter 1 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2021 Liberals suddenly started making headway in the Busan mayoral election with their promise for a new international airport that is dividing the conservatives. TBR examines the new tech underclass: the overworked logistics workers who are exposed to death and injury.
