Featured Courts 13 April 2023 Constitutional Court Upholds Prosecution Reform in a Defeat for the Yoon Administration Reckless challenge by Yoon's Justice Ministry made its legal argument even weaker.
Featured Liberals 12 April 2023 Indictment Against Lee Jae-myung Makes No Reference to Any Money Paid to Lee Prosecutors instead allege Lee gained "political benefit" by being able to keep his campaign promises.
Featured Newsletter 10 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2023 By-elections spell trouble for Yoon Suk-yeol and his People Power Party. Also: remembering Syngman Rhee’s mass murder.
Featured Society 10 April 2023 Most Korean Workers Cannot Fully Use Their Vacation Time: Data Workers in a weaker position within their workplace could barely take six days off a year.
Featured Media 8 April 2023 SBS Journalist Edited “Ladies” from Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar Speech Kim Gwang-hyeon was previously reprimanded for inserting an alt-right meme into his news footage.
Featured Liberals 7 April 2023 Grave of Lee Jae-myung’s Parents Desecrated in an Apparent Shamanistic Attack The vandalism was discovered in late February.
Featured Key Players 6 April 2023 Kim Tae-hyo: the No-Holds-Barred Ideologue Behind Yoon Administration’s Foreign Policy The fast-rising conservative intellectual in international affairs has shown a dangerous tendency to cut corners.
Featured Blue House 5 April 2023 Presidential Secretary of Protocol Quits Just Before a Critical Stretch of Diplomacy Kim Il-beom resigned just before Yoon Suk-yeol's visits to Tokyo and Washington.
Featured Newsletter 3 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, March 2023 National Security Advisor Kim Seong-han resigned, apparently because of a K-pop concert. The grandson of Chun Doo-hwan visited Gwangju to ask for forgiveness.
Featured Business & Economy 3 April 2023 South Korea's Current Account Deficit Hits Record Massive deficit in export is depleting South Korea's balance.
Featured Blue House 1 April 2023 One Year in, Yoon Suk-yeol Doesn’t Show Up to Work on Time, Doesn’t Read Yoon was late 14 out of 16 days he reported to the office, and purchased zero books in his first year.
Featured Bureaucracy 31 March 2023 Sharp Increase in Suicides During Prosecutorial Investigation: Data Most of the increase came from white collar professionals accused of bribery or embezzlement.
Featured Japan 30 March 2023 Seoul’s Capitulation in the Slave Labor Deal Repeats the Failure of 2015 Seoul's capitulation to unrepentant Tokyo ignores the victims' wishes as the US prematurely celebrates the deal.
Featured Conservatives 29 March 2023 Kim Gi-hyeon Elected as the New Ruling Party Chairman Yoon Suk-yeol strengthened his grip over the People Power Party while Lee Jun-seok faction was wiped out.
Featured Newsletter 27 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2023 The Yoon administration indicted the liberal leader Lee Jae-myung. Also: the Constitutional Court defeated the challenge against prosecution reform.
Featured Society 27 March 2023 When are You a Grown-up? South Koreans Say "28" "Emerging adulthood" becomes a social trend in South Korea.
Featured Recommendations 24 March 2023 In the Name of God: New Netflix Documentary Explores South Korea’s Cults A timely documentary considers the legacy of cults from the period of South Korea's economic growth.
Featured Liberals 23 March 2023 With the Arrest Warrant Vote, Lee Jae-myung Faces a Crossroads Unprecedented attempt to arrest the liberal leader exposed the cracks in the ranks.
Featured Society 22 March 2023 Record High Spending Private Tutoring Cost of education contributes to South Korea's low birth rate.
Featured Newsletter 20 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol visited Tokyo. Also: TBR’s profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Kim Tae-hyo, the driving force behind the slave laborer agreement with Japan.
