Featured Conservatives 20 February 2025 Conservatives Sack the Courthouse in the Wake of Yoon Arrest South Korea's right-win runs down a blind alley.
Featured Business & Economy 19 February 2025 Bank of Korea Maintains Benchmark Interest Rate Central bank wanted to lower the rates, but demurred because of political uncertainty.
Featured Newsletter 18 February 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, February 2025 Pastor Jeon Gwang-hun became the new king of the right.
Featured Society 17 February 2025 Post-Impeachment Polling Shenanigans NewJeans serves as an unlikely shibboleth.
Featured Society 14 February 2025 South Korea is a Super-Aged Society: Data More than 20% of South Korea's population is older than 65 years old.
Featured Conservatives 13 February 2025 Delenda Est The fallout from Yoon's coup may mean the end of South Korea's conservative party.
Featured Society 12 February 2025 The Man Who Stood in Front of an Armored Car “I was sure somebody around me would join and help.”
Featured Newsletter 10 February 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2025 Conservative presidential hopefuls started looking for ways off their sinking ship.
Featured Conservatives 7 February 2025 South Korea's Far-Right Prays to the CIA “They make sense if you consider the United States not as a country but as God in Heaven."
Featured Conservatives 6 February 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Deranged Insurrection Plan The brevity of Yoon's self-coup attempt belies the severity of the danger posed by the attempt.
Featured Newsletter 5 February 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, January 2025 Liberals began gearing up for a likely presidential election.
Featured Blue House 5 February 2025 Lee Jae-myung the Overwhelming Favorite to Succeed Yoon: Polls Conservatives are trailing far behind.
Featured Business & Economy 3 February 2025 Coup Attempt Leaves Businesses in Limbo as Exchange Rate Soars Most expect that a worse year is ahead.
Featured Courts 30 January 2025 Lawfare in the Aftermath: Impeachment and the Constitutional Court The next president of the Republic of Korea may ultimately be decided by court calendar.
Featured Business & Economy 29 January 2025 Yoon’s Self-Coup Halts South Korea's Sales of Weapons Contracts with Poland, Sweden and Kyrgyzstan are being put on hold.
Featured Newsletter 28 January 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol was indicted, in a victory for the beleaguered Corruption Investigation Office.
Featured National Assembly 28 January 2025 Assembly Speaker Considered the Most Trustworthy: Data U Won-sik is seen as the leader against Yoon Suk-yeol's self-coup.
Featured Blue House 23 January 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Pizzagate Coup Brain rot caused by far-right YouTube channel fueled the president's ill-fated autogolpe.
Featured National Assembly 22 January 2025 The PPP Lawmakers Who Supported Self-Coup The shameful names that will go down in infamy.
Featured Newsletter 20 January 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol traded the presidential residence for a jail cell. TBR returns (after an interrupted year-end break) with our first newsletter of 2025.
Featured Business & Economy 20 January 2025 Martial Law Destroys South Korean Stocks Political instability is bad for business.
Featured Society 17 January 2025 Sharp Jump in Immigration: Data South Korea saw one of world's highest rates of increase in immigration.
Featured Business & Economy 16 January 2025 Calm Before Calamity: South Korea’s Economic Slowdown After all, it is the economy, stupid.
Featured Conservatives 15 January 2025 Han Dong-hun’s Burner Accounts Anonymous posts by Han and his family appeared to want a dog leash around the First Lady.
Featured Breaking News 14 January 2025 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol is Arrested Long national nightmare over.
Featured Business & Economy 13 January 2025 Chaebols Revolt Against Shareholder Protection Proposal Democratic Party's legislation for greater shareholder rights is facing resistance from the largest corporations.
Featured Society 10 January 2025 Growing Acceptance for Childbirth out of Wedlock: Data Credit: Public domain. According to the Bureau of Statistics 통계청, 42.8% of Koreans in their 20s said it was acceptable to have children without getting married, a record high. The result is a significant increase from 2014, when 30.3% of respondents said out-of-wedlock childbirth was acceptable. 1.9k
Featured Courts 9 January 2025 Criminal Cases a Make-or-Break Moment for Lee Jae-myung For liberals, a moment of choice is drawing near: ride with Lee Jae-myung, or seek alternatives?
Featured Business & Economy 8 January 2025 USD-KRW Exchange Rate Soars on Trump Election Trump’s proposals for immigration crackdowns and higher tariffs are likely to cause greater inflation and stronger USD.
Featured Blue House 6 January 2025 Journalist Arrested for Reporting Yoon’s Golf Habits Yoon claimed he was practicing to meet with Donald Trump.
Featured Newsletter 31 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, December 2024 South Korea’s conservatives face down their potential demise.
Featured United States 27 December 2024 The 4B Movement Comes to America Once again, South Korean politics previews US politics.
Featured United States 26 December 2024 Trump Election Will Push South Korea Toward Nuclear Armament Nuclear experts in South Korea have long argued that the country could build its first bomb in a matter of months.
Featured Society 25 December 2024 One out of Ten Marriages is International: Data Vietnam, China and Thailand lead marriage immigration.
Featured Newsletter 23 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, December 2024 Troubling new details of Yoon Suk-yeol’s coup plans came to light, including assassinations, false flag operations and a war with North Korea.
Featured Business & Economy 23 December 2024 Democrats Drop the Financial Investment Income Tax Lee Jae-myung backs off from a new tax that could be a political liability.
Featured Blue House 20 December 2024 The Public Wants the Yoon Presidency to End: Data South Koreans have seen enough.
Featured Blue House 19 December 2024 For Yoon Suk-yeol, the Myeong Tae-gyun Bombshell May be the Beginning of the End Only eight PPP legislators stand between Yoon and impeachment or special prosecutor investigation.
Featured Business & Economy 18 December 2024 Yoon Administration Plunders Public Funds to Make Up for Deficit NHUF is the latest target.
Featured Newsletter 17 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol has been impeached - but the lawfare surrounding his coup attempt is only beginning.
Featured Culture 16 December 2024 Tigers Win the Korean Series The Gwangju team clinched the championship at home for the first time since 1987.
Featured Breaking News 14 December 2024 Breaking News Analysis: Yoon Suk-yeol is Impeached Voting and activism quelled the attempted coup.
Featured Society 13 December 2024 Record Highs in Miscarriage: Data The high rate of miscarriage is attributable to the rising age of pregnant women.
Featured Blue House 12 December 2024 Han Dong-hun Crosses the Rubicon Han's meeting with Yoon Suk-yeol ends in humiliation.
Featured Business & Economy 11 December 2024 SK Hynix Poised to Overtake Samsung in Semiconductors Down goes No. 1.
Featured Newsletter 9 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2024 A failed attempt at a self-coup by Yoon Suk-yeol resulted primarily in uncertainty.
Featured Culture 9 December 2024 Kim Su-mi, 75, Star of "Country Diaries" Kim played a lovable grandmother role for 22 years, since age 30.
Featured Culture 6 December 2024 NewJeans at the National Assembly Hanni became a star witness in a hearing for workplace bullying.
Featured North Korea 5 December 2024 North Korea: the Centre Cannot Hold The Yoon administration's inter-Korean policies have failed completely.
