Featured Newsletter 19 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2023 Kim Jong Un met with Vladimir Putin while prosecutors raided newsrooms. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s retrograde cabinet re-shuffle.
Featured Blue House 18 September 2023 The Presidential Office Has No Org Chart Incredible, but also not surprising.
Featured Business & Economy 15 September 2023 Bank of Korea Butts Heads with Financial Supervisory Service FSS head Lee Bok-hyeon, close associate of the president, is pressuring the central bank to keep the interest rate low.
Featured Key Players 14 September 2023 Lee Dong-gwan, Media Enforcer Chief regulator of television news is supposed to be neutral. But not Lee Dong-gwan.
Featured Business & Economy 13 September 2023 Samsung to Re-Join Federation of Korean Industries The move may signal a new era of government commandeering the chaebols.
Featured Newsletter 11 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol met with China’s PM, while Kim Jong Un weighed a trip to Russia. Also: What the leaky presidential office says about Yoon’s grip on the presidency.
Featured Conservatives 11 September 2023 Justice Ministry Bickers with Judith Butler Butler criticized Han Dong-hun's opposition to same-sex marriage; Han reacted testily.
Featured Society 8 September 2023 Still a Long Way to Go for Gay Rights: Data CEOs and celebrities are acceptable, but not babysitters and school teachers.
Featured Climate Change 7 September 2023 How Climate Change Alters South Korea Tropical fruits grow in the southern parts of Korea while flash floods claim more lives.
Featured Newsletter 4 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, August 2023 The Military Academy waded into a controversy by attempting to remove statutes of independence fighters from its campus. Also: the centennial of the Kanto Massacre.
Featured Blue House 1 September 2023 Welcome to Yongsan Children’s Garden; Your Choices are Yoon Suk-yeol or Blank "What is this, North Korea?"
Featured Society 31 August 2023 Jamboree Roundup: the Most Disgraceful K-Pop Concert An event as retrograde as the one in the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship.
Featured Business & Economy 30 August 2023 “Boneless Condos” Spark Fears of Collapse Collapsed parking structure at a luxury condo had no steel reinforcements.
Featured Newsletter 29 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2023 Japan began releasing radioactive wastewater from Fukushima. Also: Lee Dong-gwan, media enforcer.
Featured North Korea 28 August 2023 "Asian Schindler" Under Investigation for Molestation Yet another North Korean defector story goes awry.
Featured Business & Economy 25 August 2023 Will a Tax Cut Boost South Korea's Birth Rate? Yet another way to justify tax cut for the rich.
Featured Society 24 August 2023 The Jamboree from Hell Under the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, a major international event ends in tears.
COVID-19 23 August 2023 Public Wary of a New COVID Wave: Data Strong majority opposes relaxation of masking requirements.
Featured Newsletter 22 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol met with Joe Biden and Kishida Fumio at Camp David. Also: Climate change comes for South Korea.
Featured Society 21 August 2023 South Korea Slips Backwards in Gender Equality: Data No other advanced industrialized country showed this type of regression.
