Featured Newsletter 14 March 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol is the new president of South Korea. TBR's look ahead into the Yoon administration, and the winners and losers of the election.
Featured Foreign Policy 14 March 2022 South Korea and Russia: a Primer With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, South Korea-Russia relations is again in the spotlight.
Featured Elections 11 March 2022 Presidential Election Reax: How Yoon Seok-yeol Won In the end, the election was about the Seoul real estate.
Featured Breaking News 9 March 2022 Breaking News: Yun Seok-yeol Likely to Win the Presidential Election The lead is less than one percent.
Featured Newsletter 7 March 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2022 The presidential election is here. TBR presents its final analysis.
Featured Society 7 March 2022 Disability Rights Groups Protest for Public Transit Access Despite Bigoted Attacks Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination faced arson threats for their subway protest.
Featured Elections 4 March 2022 Daejang-dong Scandal Implicates a Sitting Supreme Court Justice Justice Jo Jae-yeon's involvement in the scandal appears to exonerate Lee Jae-myung.
Featured Elections 3 March 2022 Meet the Minor Presidential Candidates There are 14 official candidates running for presidency. Meet ten of them.
Featured Breaking News 2 March 2022 Breaking News Analysis: Yun Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-su Form a Unity Ticket The merger comes the day before early voting and six days before the presidential election.
Featured Conservatives 2 March 2022 Former Conservative Lawmaker's Prison Sentence Confirmed for Influence Peddling The Supreme Court confirmed Kim Seong-tae's sentence. Kwon Seong-dong was found not guilty for taking bribes, but his bribes-giver was found guilty.
Featured Newsletter 28 February 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, February 2022 Seoul reacts to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The presidential election is nine days away.
Featured Society 28 February 2022 Changing Standards of Family Formation: Data Marriage is no longer required.
Featured Business & Economy 25 February 2022 Koo Ja-hong, 75, Chairman of the LS Group Koo Ja-hong was the member of the LG Group's Koo family that has had a drama-free leadership.
Featured Blue House 24 February 2022 Moon Jae-in Looks Back on His Presidency In a lengthy interview, Moon recalls his Pyongyang address as the high point of his presidency.
Featured China 23 February 2022 Beijing Olympics Controversies Stoke Tension with China Charges of cultural appropriation and poor sportsmanship threw gas on the simmering anti-China sentiment.
Featured Newsletter 21 February 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, February 2022 The official campaign period of the presidential has begun. Disabled groups waged protests in the subway.
Featured Business & Economy 18 February 2022 Inflation Woes Reach Korea With loose money and geopolitical tension, little relief is in sight.
Featured Elections 17 February 2022 Can Yun Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-su Join Forces? Ahn is likely to resist a unity candidate, but Yun has cards to play as well.
Featured Elections 16 February 2022 “RE100”: Do We REally Need to Know? Yun Seok-yeol was defiant about his ignorance, but conservatives are quietly aghast.
Featured Newsletter 14 February 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, February 2022 Yun Seok-yeol vowed revenge against the Moon Jae-in administration, while anti-China sentiment ran high as the Beijing Winter Olympics progressed.
Featured Elections 14 February 2022 Who Won the First Televised Presidential Debate? The post-debate survey showed the volatility of this presidential race.
Featured Elections 10 February 2022 Shamans: Yun Seok-yeol Cannot Quit Them Persistent and long-standing connections with superstition is becoming the Yun campaign's greatest liability.
Featured Business & Economy 9 February 2022 Serious Disasters Act Takes Effect The law is among the most significant steps toward redressing South Korea's world-leading industrial accident rate.
Featured Newsletter 7 February 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2022 The presidential candidates held their first televised debate. Also: can Yun Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-su pull off a unified candidacy?
Featured Elections 7 February 2022 ARS Pollsters vs Phone Interview Pollsters How to read South Korean opinion polls, part 2.
Featured Elections 5 February 2022 Infernal Machines: Heo Gyeong-yeong's Spam Calls The cult leader has been ringing the bell.
Featured Climate Change 4 February 2022 Public Attitude on Climate Change: Survey The Korean public is ready to bear the cost of addressing climate change.
Featured COVID-19 3 February 2022 South Korea's Omicron Quandary The politics of Korea's pandemic response will have to change in the face of the variant.
Featured Announcement 2 February 2022 Watch the South Korean Presidential TV Debate with TBR! Join us in the beta version of TBR Discord.
Featured Business & Economy 2 February 2022 LG Energy Solution IPO and "Korea Discount" The risk of corporate plunder makes Korean stocks trade at a significant discount.
Featured Newsletter 31 January 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2022 North Korea tested a long range missile while the presidential race entered the critical Lunar New Year period.
Featured Society 31 January 2022 Femicide in South Korea: Data Femicide is notable for the brutality of its violence, and the emotional state of the killing men.
Featured Society 28 January 2022 South Korea Dives Over the Population Cliff The pandemic pulled forward the timetable of Korea's population decline.
Featured Elections 27 January 2022 Memes, McCarthyism and Misogyny: Yun Seok-yeol's Way Forward And it's working for him.
Featured Business & Economy 26 January 2022 Edison Motors Acquires the Troubled Ssangyong Motors The small company producing electric buses is acquiring the automaker in a consortium with a private equity fund.
Featured Newsletter 24 January 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2022 Omicron hits South Korea, complicating the politics of the country's pandemic response.
Featured Society 24 January 2022 Marriage Prospect Correlated to Politics: Data Highly educated women who reject marriage tend to be liberal; under-educated men who cannot marry tend to be conservative.
Featured Culture 22 January 2022 Chile's K-pop President Korean pop music has been a mobilizing force for popular movements in Chile and beyond.
Featured History 21 January 2022 Thirty Years of Protesting for Comfort Women The Wednesday Protest is the world's longest running protest on a single issue.
Featured Liberals 20 January 2022 Moon Jae-in’s Machiavellian Pardon of Park Geun-hye Moon's surprise pardon of Park Geun-hye shows his side as a cold-blooded operator.
Featured Society 19 January 2022 Income Inequality Reduced Under the Moon Administration: Data The bottom 20% of the income enjoyed significant improvement.
Featured Newsletter 17 January 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, January 2022 Yun Seok-yeol's presidential campaign rebounds by appealing to the incel demographic. South Korea goes over the "population cliff."
Featured Business & Economy 17 January 2022 Largest Embezzlement Case in History Takes a Bizarre Turn The KRW 188b embezzlement swindled nearly 92% of the company's equity.
Featured History 15 January 2022 Remembering Kim Geun-tae, Ten Years Later The democracy activist was known for his courageous testimony of the gruesome torture he received at the hands of the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship.
Featured Culture 14 January 2022 Squid Game Stars win the Golden Globe, Appear as the First Asian Solo Cover Model for Vogue O Yeong-su and Jeong Ho-yeon become the firsts in each category.
Featured Elections 13 January 2022 Presidential Race Update: Lee Jae-myung Rises While Yun Seok-yeol Regroups The Democratic candidate underwent an image makeover while the People Power Party candidate's campaign is falling apart.
Featured Elections 12 January 2022 Campaign Promise Leads to a Hairy Debate Proposed insurance coverage for hair loss shows Lee Jae-myung's nose for vote-hunting.
Featured Newsletter 10 January 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2022 Catch up with all the action in the presidential campaign, with Lee Jae-myung rising and Yun Seok-yeol sinking.
Featured Society 10 January 2022 New Drama Faces Furor for Historical Revisionism The main plot of Snowdrop is based on the common false claim against democracy activists.
