Featured Courts 8 August 2025 Supreme Court Rules on Polling Blackout Polls about election cannot be published, but the new ruling suggests that workarounds are permitted.
Featured Japan 7 August 2025 Lee Jae-myung’s Relationship with Tokyo Could Be Turning an Unexpected Corner Early days of the new administration has shown a surprisingly smooth relationship.
Featured Media 6 August 2025 Mixed Reactions to Voice of America Shutdown VOA's Korean language service was a thinly veiled far-right propaganda.
Featured Newsletter 5 August 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, July 2025 South Korea and the United States entered into a new tariff deal, as Koreans reconsider the nature of the alliance.
Featured Business & Economy 4 August 2025 Lee Jae-myung Administration’s First Real Estate Policy Tightens Mortgage Loans The Lee administration is pursuing a strategy of focusing entirely on controlling the flow of funds going into the housing market.
Featured Conservatives 1 August 2025 Conservatives Who Oppose the Martial Law: Data The landslide election loss may be causing the fever to break among conservative voters.
Featured Blue House 31 July 2025 Lee Jae-myung’s First Cabinet Pragmatic experience was valued in Lee's picks for cabinet ministers.
Featured Blue House 30 July 2025 New Focus for the Presidential Photographer The photos of the new president have been taking an angle that has not been seen before, intended to deemphasize his authority.
Featured Newsletter 29 July 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, July 2025 Lee Jae-myung’s cabinet appointments encountered friction.
Featured Business & Economy 28 July 2025 Lee Jae-myung Administration’s Stimulus Package Up to KRW 13.2t in consumption coupons will be distributed.
Featured Society 25 July 2025 More People Live Alone: Data Record number of single person households.
Featured Foreign Policy 24 July 2025 Early Challenges for Lee Jae-myung’s Foreign Policy Team Two camps within the administration vie for influence in foreign policy.
Featured Society 23 July 2025 South Korea’s Workforce Gets Older: Data Nearly a quarter of all workers is 60 years old or older.
Featured Culture 21 July 2025 Korean Musical Wins Tony Awards With the win, South Korea as a country is an EGOT.
Featured Business & Economy 18 July 2025 South Korea Leads OECD Nations in Food and Beverage Costs Arcane food distribution system contributes to the sky-high prices.
Featured Newsletter 17 July 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2025 Special prosecutors uncovered more shocking details of Yoon Suk-yeol’s misrule.
Featured Business & Economy 15 July 2025 Stocks Soar Under the New Administration Lee made “KOSPI 5,000 Era 코스피 5천 시대” a campaign pledge.
Featured Blue House 14 July 2025 The Yoon Administration Leaves With Everything That Wasn't Nailed Down “There’s nobody here. No computers, no printers. Not even a pen. It’s ridiculous.”
Featured Society 11 July 2025 Support for Diversity Rebounds: Data South Korea’s youth scored significantly higher in multicultural receptivity
Featured Blue House 10 July 2025 Lee Jae-myung’s Presidential Office: Pragmatism and Balance Experience over loyalty characterizes Lee's Office of the President.
Featured Business & Economy 9 July 2025 Lee Jae-myung’s Economic Priorities Empowering shareholders is high on the list.
Featured Newsletter 8 July 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2025 The National Assembly passed an economic stimulus plan. Also: What Lee Jae-myung’s real estate policy tells us about his governing style.
Featured Conservatives 7 July 2025 The Far-Right Infiltrates Elementary Schools “The patriotic youth should infiltrate the schools to teach the correct history.”
Featured Elections 4 July 2025 Gendered Politics Persist Among Youth: Data Huge gender gap was visible among voters in their 20s and 30s.
Featured Blue House 3 July 2025 Presidential Election Takeaways Lee Jae-myung wins, Kim Mun-su treads water, and Lee Jun-seok flames out.
Featured Elections 2 July 2025 The Minor Party Candidates: Lee Jun-seok and Kwon Yeong-guk Kwon and Lee are trending in opposite directions.
Featured Newsletter 30 June 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2025 Lee Jae-myung made more cabinet level appointments. Also: an unexpected turn for the better in relations with Japan?
Featured Conservatives 30 June 2025 Right-Wing Unity Ticket Still Falls Short: Polls Photo: Kim Mun-su (left) and Lee Jun-seok. Credit: Yonhap News. As the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung 이재명 민주당 대선후보 continues to show a solid lead, the People Power Party 국민의힘 has called for a unity ticket between Kim Mun-su 김문수 and New Reform Party candidate Lee Jun-seok
Featured Business & Economy 27 June 2025 Delivery Workers Get to Vote Coupang suspended its Rocket Delivery program, allowing others to follow suit.
Featured Conservatives 26 June 2025 The Global Brain Rot Community Comes to Seoul American extension of South Korea's far-right wants to "stop the steal."
Featured Conservatives 25 June 2025 Kim Mun-su’s Winding Path Kim’s story is the South Korean right’s, in miniature.
Featured Newsletter 24 June 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2025 Lee Jae-myung skipped the NATO summit and made cabinet level appointments.
Featured Elections 23 June 2025 In Miryang, Kim Mun-su Bows to Lee Jae-myung The work of U Seo-yeong 우서영, the 29-year-old Democratic Party regional committee chair.
Featured Conservatives 20 June 2025 The People Who Reject Democracy, Part 2 A significant portion of PPP supporters are open to dictatorship.
Featured Elections 19 June 2025 The Funniest Day: People Power Party Death Spiral There’s strong competition, but May 9, 2025 may be remembered as the funniest day in South Korean political history.
Featured Business & Economy 18 June 2025 Celebrity Restaurateur Paik Jong-won Takes Hiatus Amid Business Turmoil Stocked tank amid Paik's high-profile misses.
Featured Newsletter 16 June 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2025 Lee Jae-myung appointed special prosecutors and left for the G7 summit.
Featured Elections 16 June 2025 Lee Jae-myung the First Gyeonggi-do Province Governor to Win Presidency One Presidential Election Streak Broken, Another Lives on
Featured Liberals 11 June 2025 The Justice Party Quietly Changes Its Name The minor leftist party was blanked in the 2024 legislative election.
Featured Society 10 June 2025 Mapo is Seoul’s Happiest District: Data The district is popular with middle- to upper middle-class families with young children.
Featured Newsletter 9 June 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, June 2025 The Lee Jae-myung administration hit the ground running.
Featured Business & Economy 9 June 2025 SK Telecom Subscribers’ Personal Information Leaked in Massive Hack The leaked personal information included the extremely sensitive USIM authentication keys.
Featured Conservatives 6 June 2025 Lee Jae-myung Finds Unlikely Allies in Deep Red Territory District that went 67.8% for Yoon Suk-yeol is now pledged to Lee Jae-myung.
Featured Business & Economy 5 June 2025 Anemic Economic Growth to Set Record Worse economic climate than the Global Financial Crisis and the East Asian Financial Crisis.
Featured Society 4 June 2025 Philanthropist Kim Jang-ha in the Spotlight Kim is the only person who donated his private school to the public.
Featured Newsletter 3 June 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, May 2025 Lee Jae-myung was elected as the 21st president of the Republic of Korea.
Featured Breaking News 3 June 2025 Breaking News: Lee Jae-myung Likely to Win the Presidential Election The liberal candidate is on his way toward a landslide win.
Featured Blue House 3 June 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Place in History Incompetence was the only thing that stopped Yoon from being a mass murderer.
Featured Blue House 2 June 2025 Weak Approval for Acting President: Data Han Deok-su candidacy fails to launch.
Featured Courts 30 May 2025 The Total War of Institutions The Supreme Court versus the National Assembly.
