Featured Society 29 April 2022 The Middle Class Thinks They're Not: Data A significant portion of South Korea's middle class consider themselves to be poor.
Featured Conservatives 28 April 2022 Garo Sero Institute: the Fount of Far-Right Misinformation South Korea's resurgent right takes it cues from its Youtube channel.
Featured Healthcare 27 April 2022 Privatized Healthcare Fears Rise Following a Court Ruling on For-Profit Hospitals Jeju District Court's ruling may be the first step toward privatizing healthcare over the long term.
Featured Newsletter 25 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2022 The Democratic Party tries to pass the last-minute law to limit the power of prosecutors.
Featured Media 25 April 2022 Media Obsesses Over Yoon's Lunch Menu, Wife's Flip-Flops Hundreds of articles were published about what Yoon Suk-yeol had for lunch and what his wife wore while holding a dog.
Featured Conservatives 22 April 2022 Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Justice Minister Nominee, Charges His Rival for Defamation Governance by prosecution begins.
Featured Elections 21 April 2022 Daejang-dong Scandal, Revisited The real estate scandal dominated the election, but resulted in nothing.
Featured History 20 April 2022 Hong Seong-u, 84, Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney Hong, who resigned from the bench to protest the Park Chung-hee dictatorship, was involved in nearly every major legal case in South Korea's democracy activism.
Featured Newsletter 18 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol announced his first cabinet. Should BTS be exempt from military service?
Featured Business & Economy 18 April 2022 Ssangyong Motors Adrift Again as Edison Motors Deal Fails The troubled automaker lost yet another buyer.
Featured Conservatives 15 April 2022 FKI’s Data Malpractice in the Presidency Move Even by the relaxed standards for a commissioned research, the claim of expected economic benefits from the Blue House move is unusually bold.
Featured Blue House 14 April 2022 Conservative Smear Campaign Against the Moon Administration Begins in Earnest The tendentious claims against Moon are designed to evoke the actual corrupt episodes of Park Geun-hye.
Featured Conservatives 13 April 2022 Park Geun-hye Signals a Return to Politics Park's personal attorney will run for mayor in Daegu, the conservative stronghold that is the former president's hometown.
Featured Newsletter 11 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2022 Prosecutors dropped charges against key Yoon Suk-yeol ally while indicting a prominent liberal politician. TBR's profile of Garo Sero Institute, South Korea's premier peddler of right-wing misinformation.
Featured Liberals 11 April 2022 Lee Jae-myung’s Very Feminist Campaign Lee may have lost the presidential election, but he gained a long-term asset: young women supporters.
Featured Business & Economy 8 April 2022 Ham Yeong-ju the New CEO of Hana Financial Group Despite Opposition Ham is legendary for becoming an executive of Korea's second largest bank with only a high school diploma.
Featured Blue House 7 April 2022 Yoon Moves the Office of the President out of the Blue House, Evicts the Defense Ministry The idea is common enough, but the execution is not.
Featured Society 6 April 2022 Afghan Children in Ulsan Face Discrimination on the Way to School After the initial bout of racism, the Afghan children began attending schools.
Featured Newsletter 4 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, March 2022 Lee Jun-seok attacks the disability rights activists. Presidential transition committee began a smear campaign against the Moon Jae-in administration.
Featured History 4 April 2022 Admiral J. Robert Lunney, 94, Hero of the Heungnam Evacuation Heungnam Evacuation was the largest evacuation operation with a single ship.
Featured Business & Economy 1 April 2022 GOS Crisis Shows Samsung Electronics' Vulnerability "Samsung's technological advantage is over," says KBS News.
Featured Key Players 31 March 2022 Stock Up, Stock Down: Presidential Election Winners and Losers Yoon Suk-yeol may have won the election, but Lee Jae-myung (and others) won something as well.
Featured COVID-19 30 March 2022 The Disabled Suffer from the Pandemic Social distancing measures and lack of hospital access have hurt the quality of life for the disabled.
Featured Newsletter 28 March 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2022 North Korea tests an ICBM. A look back on the real estate issued that determined the presidential election.
Featured Elections 28 March 2022 Exit Poll: Young Women Fought Back Against Incels Lee Jun-seok predicted his sexist strategy would win. He was wrong.
Featured Business & Economy 25 March 2022 Nuclear Energy Stocks Enjoy an Election Bump President-elect Yoon has been emphasizing the importance of the nuclear industry.
Featured Blue House 24 March 2022 Looking Ahead to the Yoon Suk-yeol Presidency The new president-elect is certain to face numerous challenges while his political foothold is weak.
Featured History 23 March 2022 Obituary: Moon Hye-rim, 86, Women’s Rights Activist Moon was an advocate for sex workers near the US army bases in South Korea.
Featured Newsletter 21 March 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol attempted to move the presidency out of the Blue House by evicting the Ministry of National Defense.
Featured Business & Economy 21 March 2022 Kim Jeong-ju, 54, Billionaire Founder of Nexon Kim was one of the most successful start-up founders of South Korea.
Featured Key Players 17 March 2022 Lee Eo-ryeong, 89, South Korea’s Leading Public Intellectual Lee was a literary critic and writer who directed the opening ceremony of the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Featured Elections 16 March 2022 The Words of the Candidates Yoon Seok-yeol said Lee Jae-myung's name more frequently than his own.
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.
