Featured Elections 11 April 2024 The Surprising Strength of Cho Kuk Party Rebuilding Korea Party has stormed the General Election.
Featured Breaking News 10 April 2024 Breaking News Analysis: Liberals Win Legislative Supermajority in the General Election The defeat makes Yoon Suk-yeol 윤석열 the first South Korean president to spend his entire five-year term in the legislative minority.
Featured Foreign Policy 10 April 2024 Bipartisan Support for the US-South Korea Alliance: Data Both conservatives and liberals favor closer relationship with the United States.
Featured Breaking News 10 April 2024 Breaking News: Exit Polls Show Overwhelming Liberal Victory for the General Election The Democratic Party and the liberal bloc are headed to the 200-seat supermajority.
Featured Business & Economy 9 April 2024 Live-in Requirement Postponed to Help the Sagging Real Estate Market Measure to counteract real estate speculation was postponed.
Featured Newsletter 8 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2024 Voters turned out at historic levels for early voting of the April 10 General Election. Also: the Sewol Ferry Disaster, ten years on.
Featured Newsletter 1 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2024 Voting began for the General Election. Also: a look at each party’s proportional representation slate.
Featured Culture 29 March 2024 Independent Theater Hakchon Closes Hakchon made Daehak-ro the Broadway of Seoul.
Featured Elections 28 March 2024 Democratic Party Springs Leaks Ahead of the General Election Fractious slate-setting process sparked an exodus of liberal lawmakers.
Featured Society 28 March 2024 Children are Luxury Goods: Data More than half of all children are born into high income households.
Featured Business & Economy 26 March 2024 Fresh Pressure on SK Hynix to Approve Western Digital-Kioxia Merger Yoon administration joins US and Japan.
Featured Newsletter 25 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2024 The People Power Party watched its support plummet in the Seoul metropolitan area. The General Election is 16 days away.
Featured Bureaucracy 25 March 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol Takes Steps Toward Eliminating Gender Equality Ministry Minister Kim Hyeon-suk will leave her post with no replacement.
Featured History 22 March 2024 Conservatives Push Pro-Syngman Rhee Propaganda The Birth of Korea is a surprise hit, in part because conservative groups are paying people to watch it.
Featured Healthcare 21 March 2024 Few Hearts Bleed for Striking Doctors South Korea’s doctors have achieved the impossible: they appear even more out of touch than the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.
Featured Newsletter 18 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2024 Conflicts between the ruling People Power Party and the Office of the President began to spill out into the open. The General Election is 23 days away.
Featured Business & Economy 18 March 2024 Coupang Maintains a Blacklist The list contains not only workers who complained, but also undercover journalists and lawmakers.
Featured Blue House 15 March 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Cringe-worthy Celebration of Himself "It was as if a sense of indescribable shame traveled through the screen to me and stuck there, and nothing I could do would get it off me."
Featured Elections 14 March 2024 Can the New Reform Party Make a Splash as a Third Party? Probably not.