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.
Featured Conservatives 29 May 2025 Prosecutors’ Last Stand: Moon Jae-in Indicted It won't work the second time.
Featured Society 28 May 2025 Big Jump in the Number of Multicultural Children: Data Gyeonggi-do Province saw a 48 percent jump in the past five years.
Featured Newsletter 27 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, May 2025 The presidential election is one week away.
Business & Economy 27 May 2025 Franchises Decline for the First Time The decline is the first since 2019.
Featured Society 26 May 2025 Airline Pilots Take to Fisticuffs Over Impeachment Polarized politics have even affected the friendly skies.
Featured Elections 23 May 2025 2025 Presidential Election: Viewer’s Guide The uncertainty is over. Time for the election.
Featured United States 22 May 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Removal Exposes the DC Blob Washington DC’s foreign policy community failed to reckon with Yoon’s budding authoritarianism, with disastrous consequences.
Featured Conservatives 21 May 2025 Obituary: Jang Je-won, 57, a Busan Conservative Who Fell From Grace Key figure in the Yoon Suk-yeol government fell as quickly as he rose.
Featured Newsletter 19 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2025 Lee Jae-myung expanded his tent while Kim Mun-su struggled. The presidential election is 15 days away.
Featured Elections 19 May 2025 First Polls for the June 3 Presidential Election Lee Jae-myung is the runaway leader.
Featured Business & Economy 16 May 2025 Trump Tariffs Hit South Korea Tariff also affects Korean manufacturers who relocated their production out of China.
Featured Blue House 15 May 2025 Burning in Stasis The most consequential week in South Korea’s democratic history.
Featured Business & Economy 14 May 2025 Financial Cushion Gets Thinner for the Middle Class: Data Savings are the lowest in five years.
Featured Newsletter 12 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2025 The judiciary declared a truce while the People Power Party began circling the drain. The presidential election is 22 days away, as the official campaign period began.
Featured Business & Economy 12 May 2025 Short Selling Returns to a Battered Stock Market Short selling was banned as a way to pander to day traders.
Featured Newsletter 6 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, April 2025 The Supreme Court declared a total war of institutions.
Featured Conservatives 6 May 2025 People Power Party Promotes Lee Jae-myung Lee's book of quotes by the PPP became an unexpected hit.
Featured Newsletter 29 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2025 Lee Jae-myung secured the Democratic Party nomination. Also: prosecutors indicted Moon Jae-in.
Featured Blue House 25 April 2025 Wildfire Totally Not Because of a Shamanistic Ritual, Says the Presidential Office Going out of its way to attack a fringe conspiracy theory would do little to dispel the persistent association between shamanism and the Yoon administration.
Featured Conservatives 24 April 2025 Constitutional Court’s Han Deok-su Ruling Sows Bewilderment The ruling is fueling wild speculations as to Yoon’s fate, as the Constitutional Court remains inscrutable with its conclave-like secrecy.
Featured Business & Economy 23 April 2025 Hanwha Aerospace Issues New Shares, Diluting Shareholders The new share issuance amounts to a trash-and-cash scheme.
Featured Newsletter 22 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2025 The criminal trial of Yoon Suk-yeol began.
Featured Business & Economy 21 April 2025 Number of Coffee Shops Declines for the First Time: Data The explosive growth of South Korea’s coffee scene may be hitting a wall.
Featured Elections 18 April 2025 Kim Eo-jun’s Polling House Readies for Election Flower Research plans to spend more than KRW 1b (USD 690k) in the prospective election season.