Featured History 12 May 2021 Remembering the Sabuk Resistance of 1980 The lesser-known incident of state violence was the precursor to the Gwangju Democracy Movement.
Featured Newsletter 10 May 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2021 The slow news week could have been an opportunity to elevate the discourse, but South Korea's media chose sensationalism instead.
Featured Business & Economy 10 May 2021 Namyang Dairy Pumps and Dumps The embattled dairy company claimed its yogurt could cure COVID-19 and faced a blowback.
Business & Economy 7 May 2021 Louis Vuitton and Chanel the Big Winners in South Korea’s Luxury Market Pandemic-related "revenge consumption" boosted the luxury market.
Featured Starter Kit 6 May 2021 Introduction to South Korea's Judicial System South Korea has a legal system that is largely based on Civil Law with some US law characteristics.
Featured Business & Economy 5 May 2021 Ssangyong Motors Bankrupt Again South Korea's fourth largest automaker fell into bankruptcy a decade after the last restructuring.
Featured Newsletter 3 May 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2021 Lee Kun-hee donates his art collection. Our overview of the people who run the Blue House.
Featured Media 3 May 2021 Youn Yuh-jung: Oscar Winner Laughs the Last Youn is the rarest sight in Korean show business: an older actress who refuses to be pigeonholed.
Featured National Security 1 May 2021 South Korea Unveils First Unit of Domestically Produced Fighter Jet KF-21 Boramae adds to South Korea's fifth largest air force in the world.
Featured Society 30 April 2021 Rising Food Prices Hurt the Poor Only the lowest income households increased their spending during the pandemic because of the rising food price.
Featured Key Players 29 April 2021 O Se-hun: The Old New Mayor of Seoul The former Seoul mayor reclaimed the City Hall after having left it in disgrace in 2011.
Featured Media 28 April 2021 Future of Journalism: IKEA Packing Material South Korea's newspapers are in demand as they are exported in pristine condition.
Featured Newsletter 26 April 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2021 Youn Yuh-jung becomes the first Korean actor to win an Oscar. The rise of misogyny as a political ideology.
Featured Buzzword 26 April 2021 Buzzword: Naero-nambul One of the South Korea's greatest political slangs made a comeback in the recent by-elections.
Featured Business & Economy 24 April 2021 BTS and Ariana Grande, Together at Last at the Shareholder Meeting HYBE acquires Ithaca Holdings, expanding into the US market in a big way.
Featured Society 23 April 2021 Getting Older: Korean Mothers South Korea's low fertility rate in part stems from women giving birth late in their lives.
Featured Foreign Policy 22 April 2021 Myanmar and South Korea: a Brief History Myanmar and South Korea began as a partnership of authoritarianism, but the two countries' paths diverged.
Featured History 21 April 2021 Remembering the Jeju Massacre of 1947-49 Also known as the April 3 Incident, the Jeju Massacre is among the most horrific acts of state violence in South Korean history.
Featured Newsletter 19 April 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2021 Moon Jae-in lines up what is likely to be his last cabinet. TBR's Starter Kit on South Korea's judicial system.
Featured Business & Economy 19 April 2021 Market Kurly Follows Coupang, Pursues New York IPO Market Kurly is an online shopping mall that delivers fresh food.
Featured COVID-19 16 April 2021 South Korea Preparing for a Vaccine Passport The vaccine passport will be blockchain-based.
Featured Starter Kit 15 April 2021 The Invisible Hands of South Korean Politics The elected officials may receive all the spotlight, but those behind the scene are often more important.
Featured Business & Economy 14 April 2021 Korean Drama Canceled After History Row with China Since late last year, the claims of Chinese encroachment on Korean culture have been getting louder.
Featured Newsletter 12 April 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2021 Conservatives sweep the Seoul/Busan mayoral by-elections. Also, our profile of the old new Seoul mayor O Se-hun.
Featured Japan 12 April 2021 First Korean School Appeared in Japanese HS Baseball Championship Kyoto International School is one of only four zainichi schools of Japan.
Business & Economy 9 April 2021 South Korea's Largest Crypto Exchange Up for Sale Bithumb is a top seven crypto exchange in the world.
Featured United States 8 April 2021 Biden Officials Stumble in Their Seoul Visit The grown-ups may be back in the room, but that didn't mean everything went smoothly.
Featured Breaking News 7 April 2021 Breaking News Analysis: Conservatives Sweep the Seoul-Busan By-Elections For the first time in five years, the conservative People Power Party won a major election as they swept the mayoral by-elections of South Korea's two largest cities.
Featured Key Players 6 April 2021 Heo Gyeong-yeong Picks up His Antics Again in the Seoul Mayor Race The cult leader's frivolous campaign is sometimes an ironic contribution to democracy.
Featured Newsletter 5 April 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, March 2021 Seoul/Busan mayoral by-elections are two days away. An overview of ROK-Myanmar relations.
Featured Conservatives 5 April 2021 Can O Se-hun Avoid an Upset This Time? The conservative Seoul mayor candidate has an unfortunate streak of being on the wrong side of an upset.
Featured Starter Kit 3 April 2021 Get to Know Busan, South Korea's Second City The discerning watcher of South Korean politics should pay close attention to South Korea’s second largest city, long the bellwether of Korean politics.
Business & Economy 2 April 2021 SK Hynix Close Acquiring Intel's NAND Memory Division Memory chip maker won a key US regulatory approval.
Featured Blue House 1 April 2021 One Year Away: Presidential Election 2022 Viewer's Guide Five story lines to watch for the next year.
Society 31 March 2021 South Korea Last in OECD Glass Ceiling Index South Korea came last or second-to-last in majority of the categories of gender gap.
Featured Newsletter 29 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2021 A look at the invisible hands of South Korean politics. Seoul and Busan mayoral elections are nine days away.
Society 29 March 2021 Flagging Flag Sales Blamed on Conservatives As the taegeukgi took on political implications, fewer people are buying them.
Featured Key Players 26 March 2021 Obituary: Staff Sergeant Byeon Hee-su, a Pioneer of Transgender Rights Byeon was South Korea’s first publicly known transgender soldier who fought for her right to serve in the military.
Featured Blue House 25 March 2021 Poll: How Every Korean President Fared Over Five (or Less) Years South Korean politics is a brutal landscape for any president.
Featured Business & Economy 24 March 2021 EV Popularity Leaves Workers and Parts Suppliers Shaking Electric vehicles are supposed to be the wave of the future, but they also threaten to displace a major industry.
Featured Newsletter 22 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2021 High-ranking Biden administration officials visited Seoul and left confusion in their wake. TBR presents a political overview of Busan, South Korea’s prosperous second city.
Featured Conservatives 22 March 2021 LH Scandal Upends the Seoul Mayor Race as O Se-hun Surges Democrat Park Yeong-seon appeared to be sailing into the City Hall until the real estate scandal derailed her campaign.
Courts 20 March 2021 Criminal "Defamation-by-Facts" Law Held Constitutional The crime of defamation-by-facts has been criticized for potentially infringing upon freedom of speech, and for being used as a tool to silence whistleblowers.
COVID-19 19 March 2021 LDS Syringes a Crucial Link in COVID-19 Vaccination Medium-sized South Korean companies are coming up big in syringes that squeeze the vaccine's last drop.
Featured Liberals 18 March 2021 The Decline and Degradation of the Justice Party What was once a broad alliance of labor unions, farmers' organizations and young idealists is now the party of the urban hipsters.
Featured History 17 March 2021 55th Anniversary of the Tay Vinh Massacre in the Vietnam War One of the worst atrocities committed by South Korea's military.
Featured Liberals 16 March 2021 Poll: Democratic Party the Most Progressive Supporters of the main liberal party identified themselves as more progress than minor leftist parties.
Featured Newsletter 15 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2021 The Seoul mayoral election is in turmoil with the latest real estate scandal. The presidential election is less than one year away.
Featured Business & Economy 15 March 2021 Basic Income: the Next Step in the Pandemic Economy? The COVID-19 pandemic and the leading presidential candidate is making the once-outlandish idea mainstream.
