Featured Bureaucracy 9 October 2025 Extensive Government Reorganization to Eliminate Public Prosecutors’ Office, Among Others Elimination of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance is equally as important.
Featured Business & Economy 7 October 2025 Immigration Raid in the United States Halts Projects, Sparks Outrage For now, Korean businesses are keeping a low profile.
Featured Business & Economy 6 October 2025 AI Use Spreads in Business Credit: Public domain. According to a survey by the Bank of Korea 한국은행, 63.5% of all workers have used generative artificial intelligence at work, vastly outpacing the United States’ 26.5%. Workers spend approximately five to seven hours per week on AI use, which resulted in a 3.8%
Featured Society 3 October 2025 Convenience Stores Become Frontlines of Welfare Programs People's everyday habits displayed in the stores make it an ideal entry point for social assistance.
Featured Starter Kit 2 October 2025 Starter Kit: The Long Reach of the Unification Church The cult has cultivated deep roots with the right wing politics in South Korea, Japan, and the United States.
Featured Newsletter 30 September 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2025 The National Assembly eliminated the Public Prosecutors’ Office. Also: a primer on South Korea, Israel, and Palestine.
Featured Japan 30 September 2025 Ishiba More Popular Than Trump: Data Japanese prime minister hits record approval rating among South Koreans.
Featured Recommendations 29 September 2025 Lee Se-dol, Go Champion, Looks Back on Defeating AI "What is the role of a pro in a game with a predetermined answer?"
Featured Blue House 26 September 2025 Prosecutors Lose Critical Evidence Against Yoon Suk-yeol Wrapping paper for the cash bundle contained critical information connecting Yoon and his shaman.
Featured Foreign Policy 25 September 2025 Mr. Lee Goes to Washington, via Tokyo Visit to Japan before the United States shows a change in priorities for South Korea.
Featured Newsletter 23 September 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2025 The leader of the Unification Church cult was detained, while Lee Jae-myung traveled to the United Nations.
Featured Conservatives 22 September 2025 Majority Wants PPP Gone: Data The conservative opposition is facing an existential crisis.
Featured Business & Economy 19 September 2025 National Museum Booms with K-Pop Demon Hunters Fans Visitors nearly double while merchandises fly off the shelf.
Featured Liberals 18 September 2025 Cho Kuk Returns from the Dead; Will He Rise? The former liberal heir apparent faces a new challenge.
Featured Conservatives 17 September 2025 Seoul Detention Center Chief Sacked Over Special Treatment for Yoon Suk-yeol Yoon was given unlimited use of an air-conditioned room with smartphone use.
Featured Newsletter 16 September 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2025 Lee Jae-myung marked off his first 100 days as president. Also: lawfare comes to the judiciary.
Featured Business & Economy 15 September 2025 Lee Jae-myung Administration Launches Sovereign AI Project Five companies won the bid to create a domestic rival to the leading AI engines.
Featured History 12 September 2025 Court Orders Reparation for Officer Who Stood Against Chun Doo-hwan Kim O-rang died in a gunfight against insurrectionists.
Featured Starter Kit 11 September 2025 Starter Kit: With Vietnam, South Korea Atones and Looks Forward Liberal governments have acknowledged Seoul's misdeeds and forged a forward-looking relationship.