Featured Newsletter 26 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol goes a disastrous tour of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. A look at the new landscape of South Korean politics.
Featured Foreign Policy 24 September 2022 Queen Elizabeth II and Korea The English queen's reign nearly covered the entirety of South Korea's existence.
Featured Society 23 September 2022 Inflation Hurting the Chuseok Table: Data More than half said they are simplifying the Chuseok spread because of rising food costs.
Featured Liberals 22 September 2022 Lee Jae-myung's New Challenge The former presidential candidate is now the Democratic Party chairman. Now, here comes the hard part.
Featured Business & Economy 21 September 2022 South Korea Loses Arbitration to Lone Star, Ordered to Pay USD 216.5m The investor-state arbitration against a US-based private equity fund was one of the biggest business litigations South Korea has faced.
Featured Newsletter 19 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol welcomed China’s top legislator, while the People Power Party attempted to whitewash a coup attempt. Also: a look at the maelstrom of controversy around the First Lady.
Featured Blue House 19 September 2022 Yoon's First Budget Proposal Cuts Back Welfare and National Defense Conservatives have criticized the aircraft carrier as only helpful to the United States.
Featured History 17 September 2022 Brothers Welfare Center Officially Recognized as State-Sanctioned Human Rights Violation The slave camp in Busan killed over 650 in its twelve years of operation during South Korea's dictatorship era.
Featured Society 16 September 2022 Fertility Rate Drops to a New Low Seoul is beginning to feel the effects as well.
Featured COVID-19 15 September 2022 Sleepwalking into a COVID Public Health Disaster The Yoon administration still has no Health Minister, and the existing personnel are not up to the task.
Featured Business & Economy 14 September 2022 “A Back-of-the-Head Strike”: US Protectionism of Electric Vehicles Draws Ire New low cuts off government assistance for EVs manufactured by South Korean carmakers.
Featured Newsletter 12 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2022 South Korea celebrated Chuseok amid soaring inflation that is dampening the spirit of the harvest season. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s quiet purge of the presidential office.
Featured Liberals 12 September 2022 Democratic Party Elects New Leadership Lee Jae-myung is the new chairman, with a firm hold in the party's leadership group.
Featured Business & Economy 9 September 2022 Chicken Game: Bargain Priced Fried Chicken Poised to Disrupt Once criticized as undercutting mom-and-pop shops, cut-rate fried chicken is now welcome as inflation rages.
Featured History 8 September 2022 "New Right" History Ascendant Again Under Conservative Presidency The right-wing revisionist history is stridently anti-communist and pro-Japanese Imperialism.
Featured Business & Economy 7 September 2022 The Quietly Roaring Private Equity Market of South Korea South Korea's maturing economy is a fertile ground for financiers.
Featured Newsletter 5 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, August 2022 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration proposed its first budget that cut welfare programs. Also: a look at what lies ahead for Lee Jae-myung, now chairman of the Democratic Party.
Featured Blue House 5 September 2022 By the Numbers: Yoon Suk-yeol's First 100 Days in Polls When asked to pick a word that reminded them of the Yoon administration, most selected "despair."
Featured Media 2 September 2022 Journalists Continue Cheering for Beleaguered Yoon Suk-yeol Media's blatant display of partisanship is a common sight in a conservative administration.
Featured Blue House 1 September 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol Responds to Deadly Flash Flood with Indifference and Insensitivity Yoon's inaction and lack of empathy are flowing down to his officials.
Featured Business & Economy 31 August 2022 South Korean Shipbuilding Dominant Through July Korea's shipbuilders fended off China's challenge with a healthy demand for LNG transports.
Featured Newsletter 29 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2022 Lee Jae-myung is the new leader of the Democratic Party, while the former leader of the People Power Party successfully sued his party. Also: sleepwalking into a COVID disaster.
Featured Foreign Policy 29 August 2022 US More Important, China Less, Japan Not at All: Data South Korean public placed greater importance on the ROK-US alliance, while Japan is nearly irrelevant.
Featured Business & Economy 26 August 2022 Meta Backs off on Personal Information Collection South Korea was the only market in which Meta threatened to terminate membership for those who did not agree to provide personal information.
Featured Blue House 25 August 2022 "Diplomatic Disaster" Again: Yoon Bungles Pelosi Visit Was it a gaffe, or a pivot to China?
Featured Blue House 24 August 2022 Kookmin University Exonerates First Lady from Plagiarism Charges in a Dubious Proceeding Text similarity rate of 43% and absurd discussion of phrenology were not enough to disqualify Kim Geon-hee's doctoral dissertation.
Featured Newsletter 22 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol celebrated Liberation Day and his 100th day in office in the face of dismal approval ratings.
Featured Society 22 August 2022 Dog Meat Falls Out of Favor: Data The traditional summer dish is on the verge of disappearing.
Featured Recommendations 19 August 2022 Candid Look at South Korea’s Start-Up Scene: Book Review Krafton Way is an unusually in-depth look at South Korea's start-up scene.
Featured Conservatives 18 August 2022 The Fall of the House of Lee Jun-seok Once heralded as the future of South Korean conservatism, Lee finds himself in the wilderness.
Featured Society 17 August 2022 Misogynistic Campaign Pledge Leads to Greater Online Sexism: Data Words may not be sticks and stones, but words by leaders cause real world harm.
Featured Newsletter 15 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2022 Flash flood claimed more than a dozen lives and displaced thousands while President Yoon Suk-yeol was stuck at home.
Featured National Security 15 August 2022 New Arsenal of Democracy: South Korean Arms Sale to Poland The return of industrial era war favors South Korea's arms manufacturers.
Featured Culture 13 August 2022 Hit Drama Sparks Conversations about Autism and Disability "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" portrays an autistic legal savant.
Featured Business & Economy 12 August 2022 End of Daewoo Shipbuilding Strike Averts Disaster The subcontractors' union was facing pressure from every direction, including other workers.
Featured Blue House 11 August 2022 Yoon Administration's 'Personnel Disaster' Trouble with appointments is a microcosm of Yoon Suk-yeol's political weakness.
Featured Conservatives 10 August 2022 Yoon's Red-Baiting Fails to Launch The administration and the ruling party cannot keep their stories straight while the public is tuning them out.
Featured Newsletter 8 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol snubs Nancy Pelosi while his Education Minister resigned just 34 days after appointment.
Featured Bureaucracy 8 August 2022 Police Colonels Protest the Revival of Dictatorship Era Police Bureau More of the half of the frontline chiefs expressed opposition to the Interior Ministry's Bureau of Police.
Featured Media 6 August 2022 Collecting Busan's Untold Stories for Laundry To dig deep into local history, Busan Ilbo journalists opened a laundromat.
Featured Blue House 5 August 2022 South Korean Electorate Feels Buyer's Remorse with Yoon Suk-yeol: Data Lee Jae-myung would win in a walk in a hypothetical do-over.
Featured Blue House 4 August 2022 Cornered Yoon Suk-yeol Turns to McCarthyism Yoon administration is trying to make hay out of two Moon Jae-in era incidents involving North Korea, although none of the facts changed.
Featured Newsletter 2 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, July 2022 People Power Party falls into disarray. Massive South Korean arms sale to Poland. And Lee Jun-seok in the wilderness.
Featured Courts 1 August 2022 Constitutional Court Clashes with Supreme Court In only the second time in South Korean history, the Constitutional Court overturned a Supreme Court decision.
Featured Society 30 July 2022 Heo Jun-i is South Korea's First Fields Medal Winner Remarkable late bloomer took the top award in mathematics.
Featured Business & Economy 29 July 2022 Minimum Wage and How South Korea Avoided Japanization South Korea's high minimum wage made its export-dependent economy more resilient.
Featured Japan 28 July 2022 Abe Shinzo's Poisonous Legacy For Japan's reactionary leader, Korea was the perfect enemy that betrayed his true intentions.
Featured Conservatives 27 July 2022 PPP Chairman Lee Jun-seok Suspended over Sex-for-Bribes Scandal Lee was accused of receiving over 20 sessions with prostitutes from a businessman who wanted access to the president.
Featured Newsletter 25 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, July 2022 Police colonels protest the new Bureau of Police. A look into the Yoon administration's "Personnel Disaster".
Featured Society 25 July 2022 Multicultural Children Grow, Don't Make it to College: Data South Korea is slowly becoming a society of immigrants, but immigrant children face challenges.
