Featured Newsletter 2 September 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2025 The Unification Church’s connections to politics came to light.
Featured Business & Economy 1 September 2025 Consumption Coupons Stoke Demand Lee Jae-myung's signature policy is boosting domestic demand.
Featured Blue House 28 August 2025 Lee Jae-myung Hits a Snag with Appointments The first signs of strain are beginning to show for the new administration.
Featured Business & Economy 27 August 2025 Lee Jae-myung Gets Serious About Labor Abuses As a child laborer, Lee became disabled in an industrial accident when a machine injured his left arm.
Featured Newsletter 26 August 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2025 Lee Jae-myung toured Japan and the United States.
Featured Business & Economy 25 August 2025 Minimum Wage Rises to Highest in Asia South Korea's high minimum wage props up domestic consumption.
Featured Conservatives 22 August 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Shaman Worshiped Amaterasu Bizarre worship of a Japanese deity may explain Yoon's diplomacy with Tokyo.
Featured Conservatives 21 August 2025 Special Prosecutor Investigations over the Yoon Administration: the State of Play Yoon Suk-yeol tried to start a war, and other revelations.
Featured Climate Change 20 August 2025 Heat Stroke Numbers Soar in a Record Heat Wave Hottest summer in 118 years.
Featured Newsletter 19 August 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2025 South Korea marked the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day, and Cho Kuk returned to politics.
Featured Blue House 14 August 2025 Lee Jae-myung’s Real Estate Policy: An Early Indicator for the Administration Surprising early success suggests Lee's governing style.
Featured Blue House 13 August 2025 Lee Jae-myung’s Cabinet is Nearly 30% Women The benchmark is based on the average percentage of women cabinet members in OECD countries.
Featured Newsletter 12 August 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2025 Lee Jae-myung held a summit meeting with Vietnam’s leader To Lam.
Featured Business & Economy 11 August 2025 New Laws Strengthen Shareholder Rights The revisions are a key step toward relieving the so-called “Korea discount."
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.
