Featured Newsletter 6 September 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2021 Lee Jae-myung scores an early victory in the Democratic primaries, while Yun Seok-yeol faced the biggest challenge of his political career.
Featured Foreign Policy 6 September 2021 Seoul Observes Kabul to Contemplate Its Own Destiny South Koreans contemplate a world in which the United States maybe retrenching.
Featured Japan 4 September 2021 South Korean Spy Agency Collaborated with Japanese Far-Right During Park Administration The National Intelligence Service coordinated with Japan's far-right to harass Comfort Women activists.
Featured History 3 September 2021 30th Anniversary of the Testimony that Sparked Comfort Women Activism Kim Hak-sun was the first former military sex slave to come forward with her story, launching a highly successful public diplomacy campaign.
Featured Media 2 September 2021 Media Objects to Fake News Prevention Law While the Public Turns Away Having lost faith in the media, the South Korean public strongly backs the proposed bill.
Featured Media 1 September 2021 How Samsung Rolled the Media to Get Its Scion Released from Prison The media built up the public pressure to push the government to parole Lee Jae-yong.
Featured Newsletter 30 August 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2021 South Korea evacuated Afghans in "Operation Miracle"; TBR profile of Lee Nak-yeon, the former next president of South Korea.
Featured Elections 30 August 2021 Jeong Se-gyun Aims for the Only Office He's Never Held Third in the TBR series of presidential candidates: former Prime Minister Jeong Se-gyun.
Featured Business & Economy 27 August 2021 Bar Association Moves to Sanction Attorneys Who Joined the Online Legal Platform Lawtalk, the platform that will be most affected, is preparing a court challenge.
Featured Conservatives 26 August 2021 Yun Seok-yeol's Very Bad Month The former Supreme Prosecutor's transition to politics has been worse than the already low expectations.
Featured Elections 25 August 2021 Jeju’s Native Son Won Hee-ryong Wants to be the Conservative Alternative Second installment in TBR's series of presidential candidate profiles.
Featured Newsletter 23 August 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2021 South Korea celebrated its 76th Liberation Day while casting a wary eye toward Afghanistan. TBR's profile of conservative presidential candidate Hong Jun-pyo.
Featured Society 23 August 2021 Kim Yeon-gyeong Leads the Women's Volleyball Team to Glory Despite failing to medal, the volleyball team's against-all-odds fourth place finish became one of the biggest stories of the Olympics.
Featured Society 21 August 2021 First Disabled Climber to Summit the 14 Highest Peaks Presumed Dead Kim Hong-bin's achievement took a grim turn as he went missing on his way down.
Featured North Korea 20 August 2021 With North Korea, Most Prefer Peaceful Coexistence over Unification: Survey Most South Koreans also don't think about North Korea at all.
Featured Key Players 19 August 2021 In the Male-Dominated World of South Korean Politics, Choo Mi-ae Marches On TBR profile of major presidential candidates begins with the heavyweight woman politico.
Featured North Korea 18 August 2021 Unnamed Sources in North Korea News: Data Chosun Ilbo is the most frequent purveyor of anonymous, unverifiable source of North Korean news.
Featured Newsletter 16 August 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2021 Thirtieth anniversary of Comfort Women activism, and TBR's profile of presidential candidate Jeong Se-gyun.
Featured Business & Economy 16 August 2021 Coupang's Lax Response to Warehouse Fire Turns Deadly The safety team at the warehouse disabled the fire alarm six times in the early stages of the fire.
Featured Society 14 August 2021 Bok and South Korea's Changing Perception of Animals Once a day for eating chickens and dogs is now marked with greater rights for animals and veganism.
Featured Business & Economy 13 August 2021 Pension Investment: BTS Takes Care of South Korea's Retirees The world-beating K-pop group is not just a musical sensation, but also a great investment.
Featured Society 12 August 2021 Olympics Roundup: Taekwondo to the World; An San's Golden Run Silences Incels Less nationalistic than before, South Korea takes no gold in taekwondo in a stride - but that doesn't mean sexists get to attack a triple gold medal winner.
Featured Business & Economy 11 August 2021 Hyundai Motors a Hidden Hand in South Korea's Archery Dominance The chaebol has been credited with providing new technology and fair administration.
Featured Newsletter 9 August 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2021 South Korean women's volleyball shines in the Tokyo Olympics. Yun Seok-yeol's very bad month, and TBR profile of conservative presidential candidate Won Hee-ryong.
Featured Media 9 August 2021 How MBC Failed to Screen Racist Materials from the Olympics Opening Ceremony Telecast Corporate bean-counting and toxic sports fandom culture led to this debacle.
Featured Society 7 August 2021 Women Don’t Want to Do It, Men Don’t Have Anyone to Do It with More than one-third of South Korean adults have not had sex in more than a year.
Featured Society 6 August 2021 “Youth” in the Media Disproportionately Concentrated in Seoul The voice of college educated urbanites are over-represented in the media.
Featured Conservatives 5 August 2021 Conservatives Look to Another Moon Administration Bureaucrat for a Presidential Run Choi Jae-hyeong emergence belies the conservatives' barren field of talent.
Featured Business & Economy 4 August 2021 Travel Company Yanolja Receives KRW 2t Funding from Softbank Yanolja has grown into a cloud-based hotel administration service provider.
Featured Newsletter 2 August 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, July 2021 Olympics mania sweeps South Korea, silencing the sexists for a time. The two Koreas re-connect the inter-Korean hotline.
Featured North Korea 2 August 2021 Balloon-Launching North Korean Defector Assaults Journalists Park Sang-hak also attacked the intervening police with a pepper spray.
Featured Society 31 July 2021 White Elephant Apartment in Seoul Produces a Mountain of Trash With re-development looking less likely, one of the fanciest apartments in Seoul finally decided to clean out its basement after 40 years.
Featured Business & Economy 30 July 2021 Trade Group That Exaggerated Newspaper Circulation Numbers Sanctioned KABC claimed nearly double the amount of the circulation of physical newspapers.
Featured Conservatives 29 July 2021 Fueled by Misogyny, Conservatives Take Aim at the Ministry of Gender Equality Despite continuing sexism in South Korea, the Gender Equality Ministry has been the conservatives' favorite hobby horse.
Featured Society 28 July 2021 Industrial and Rural Areas: Where Immigrants Are South Korea's globalization happens away from the cities.
Featured Breaking News 26 July 2021 Breaking News: the Two Koreas Reconnect the Inter-Korean Hotline, Signaling the Resumption of Dialogue The resumption came on the 68th anniversary of the end of active fighting in the Korean War.
Featured Newsletter 26 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, July 2021 TBR profiles major presidential candidates, beginning with former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae.
Featured Society 26 July 2021 SNU Cleaning Worker Died at Work from Exhaustion Amid Bullying Allegations The university refused to apologize for the death, provoking outcry.
Featured Society 24 July 2021 Oldest Hangeul Type from 15th Century Discovered The types were used in a press that was older than the Gutenberg press.
Featured Business & Economy 23 July 2021 No Net Neutrality: Netflix Loses Lawsuit on Bandwidth Fee against Internet Service Provider The court found in favor of SK Broadband, which complained Netflix was using too much bandwidth.
Featured Society 22 July 2021 Pride in South Korea: Can Anti-Discrimination Act Pass This Time? The law failed seven times, but with broad liberal support, this time may be different.
Featured Business & Economy 21 July 2021 Two Years After Japan's Trade War, South Korea's Material Industry is Thriving Tokyo intended to kneecap South Korea's high tech industry, but homegrown material industry easily replaced the Japanese imports.
Featured Newsletter 19 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2021 Another Moon Jae-in administration bureaucrats joined the opposition. South Korea battled a sweltering heat wave and a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Featured Elections 19 July 2021 The Presidential Primary Season Officially Kicks Off The Democratic Party began the television debates; the People Power Party will kick off in August.
Featured Society 17 July 2021 Data: Despite New Technologies, Household Chores Increase And most of it still falls on women.
Featured Courts 16 July 2021 Supreme Court: Non-Religious Pacifists Also Entitled to Alternate Military Service Previously, the Constitutional Court provided for alternative service for religious pacifists.
Featured Conservatives 15 July 2021 Is Yun Seok-yeol Ready for Prime Time? Yun is the leading conservative candidate for presidency, but his transition from a prosecutor to a politician has not been smooth.
Featured Business & Economy 14 July 2021 Central Bank Announces Interest Rate Hike "Within This Year" Bank of Korea cited the need to normalize the monetary policy as the asset markets sizzle.
Featured Newsletter 12 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2021 The Democratic Party made its first cut for the presidential primaries. Conservatives take aim at the Ministry of Gender Equality.
Featured Conservatives 12 July 2021 Chosun Ilbo's Vulgarities Against Liberal Politicians Reach a New Low Twice in one week, the conservative paper used image and slur evoking prostitution in connection with liberal politicians.
