Featured Liberals 13 March 2021 Poll: What Young South Korean Liberals Want Young liberals want social democratic economy, loose unification with North Korea, and no part of China.
Featured Business & Economy 12 March 2021 South Korea and Taiwan: the "New OPEC" of Semiconductors Dominance of South Korea and Taiwan in semiconductors has geopolitical implications.
Key Players 11 March 2021 Obituary: Baek Gi-wan, a Lifelong Fighter for Democracy and Unification Baek was one of South Korea's first civic activists for democracy.
Featured COVID-19 10 March 2021 Vaccine Politics Threaten to Derail South Korea's COVID-19 Response South Korea succeeded in combating the pandemic despite fractious politics rather than thanks to sheep-like conformity.
Featured Newsletter 8 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2021 The major parties set their tickets for the Seoul and Busan mayor by-elections, now just one month away. Also, a look at how Moon Jae-in has fared compared to other presidents at the same point in their terms, and remembering the pioneer of transgender rights in military.
Featured COVID-19 8 March 2021 Doctors Threaten to Boycott COVID-19 Vaccination to Prevent Losing License After Committing Felony The doctors find it intolerable that they may lose their license after committing murder or sexual assault.
Featured National Security 6 March 2021 Recognizing South Korea as a Military Power South Korea's superior conventional weaponry may act as a hindrance to denuclearizing North Korea.
Business & Economy 5 March 2021 LG Chem Defeats SK Innovation in the EV Battery Duel in the US Court The two South Korean giants of EV batteries have been litigating each other in the United States.
Featured Key Players 4 March 2021 Moon Chung-in: South Korean Liberals’ Most Important Pyongyangologist Moon advised all three of South Korea's liberal presidents and is likely to continue should there be a fourth one.
Featured Liberals 3 March 2021 Poll: Park Yeong-seon Leading in the Seoul Mayor Race Ahn Cheol-su's lead in the Seoul mayor race is no more.
Featured Newsletter 1 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, February 2021 South Korean politicos debated the merits of a universal basic income, while the Justice Party started losing its bearings.
Featured Society 1 March 2021 If You Build It: Seoul Mayors’ Infrastructure Projects Seoul landscape changes constantly with its mayor's political ambition.
Featured Conservatives 26 February 2021 Conservatives’ Aimless Attack on ‘Nuclear Zero’ Nuclear power is not exactly a populist issue, but the conservatives are trying to make it into one.
Featured Conservatives 25 February 2021 About Face: Conservatives Now in Favor of the New Airport in Busan While Some Continue to Hold Out Support for liberals in the Busan area has been surging since they proposed the new airport.
Featured Starter Kit 24 February 2021 Starter Kit: a Brief History of Primaries in South Korea The inter-party election to select the candidates who would run in the final election is a recent feature in Korean politics, and is localized in a peculiar way.
Featured Newsletter 22 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, February 2021 Politics are threatening to derail the COVID-19 vaccination program, and what young liberal voters want.
Society 22 February 2021 First Government Recommendation in Favor of Transgender Right in the Military Staff Sergeant Byeon Hee-su 변희수 was discharged after undergoing a gender transition procedure.
Featured Society 20 February 2021 “Outsourcing Death”: the Plight of the Workers in the Pandemic Tech Era Sorting boxes in the subscription economy comes at the cost of lives.
Featured National Assembly 19 February 2021 Justice Party in Disarray The minor leftist party is mired in sexual harassment and illegal termination scandals.
Featured Liberals 18 February 2021 Let Busan Fly: the Democrats' Southeastern Strategy The liberals' relentless pursuit of Busan voters is dividing the conservatives.
Featured Newsletter 16 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, February 2021 Happy Lunar New Year! Our look at Seoul's infrastructure projects, and the profile of Moon Chung-in.
Business & Economy 16 February 2021 Poll: South Korean Public Divided on Samsung Heir Prison Term Sympathy for Lee Jae-yong was split along the partisan line.
Featured Liberals 15 February 2021 Is Lee Jae-myung the New Favorite to be the Next President? The Gyeonggi-do Province Governor is building a strong lead in the polls, but don't sleep on the third option.
Featured Key Players 12 February 2021 Poll: Jeong Se-gyun Rising as the Liberals' Third Option for the President The liberal voters may still be searching for options beyond the two leaders.
Featured Key Players 11 February 2021 Kang Kyung-wha's Valedictorian Departure The trailblazing Foreign Minister exits the stage.
Featured Business & Economy 10 February 2021 LG Looking to Quit the Smartphone Business An ignominious end for the company that once led the cellphone trend as recently as mid-2000s.
Featured Newsletter 8 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2021 Conservatives' obsession with nuclear power, and the wild world of South Korean style primary elections.
History 8 February 2021 The Torture Death that Sparked South Korea’s Democratization Park Jong-cheol was 22 when he perished in Seoul's black site.
Featured Conservatives 5 February 2021 Supreme Court Finalizes 22 Years in Prison for Park Geun-hye President Moon Jae-in rejected the call for pardoning Park.
Featured Key Players 4 February 2021 Kim Eo-jun: South Korea's Most Important Political Pundit The bushy haired podcaster has been the leader of young Koreans who abandoned the traditional media.
Featured COVID-19 3 February 2021 Celltrion on Its Way to Coronavirus Cure Celltrion is the largest South Korean pharmaceutical company by market cap.
Featured Newsletter 1 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2021 Liberals suddenly started making headway in the Busan mayoral election with their promise for a new international airport that is dividing the conservatives. TBR examines the new tech underclass: the overworked logistics workers who are exposed to death and injury.
Featured North Korea 1 February 2021 False Charge of Espionage Against a North Korean Defector Disproven The conservative Park Geun-hye administration ran campaign of fabricated charges against North Korean defectors.
Featured Business & Economy 29 January 2021 Significant Increase in Penalty for Industrial Disasters South Korea had the highest death rate from industrial accidents in the OECD for 23 years in a row.
Featured COVID-19 28 January 2021 KAIST Develops World's First Mobile Negative Pressure Clinic The entire module with four chambers can be deployed in 15 minutes.
Featured Key Players 27 January 2021 Ahn Cheol-su's Politics of Apathy Ahn continues to find political life among those who detest politics.
Featured Newsletter 25 January 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2021 The Democratic field for the next president is shifted in favor of Lee Jae-myung although a third man may be waiting in the wings.
Featured Business & Economy 25 January 2021 Record Estate Tax Likely to Trigger Samsung Restructuring Lee Kun-hee's KRW 12t estate tax bill will likely push the founding family to sell their stakes.
Featured Society 22 January 2021 Shocking Number of Deaths for Migrant Workers Migrant farm hands perish at an alarming rate, especially during South Korea's bitter winter.
Featured Blue House 21 January 2021 Moon Jae-in's Fifth Year: Can He Stick the Landing? The president is in a better position than his predecessors, but South Korean politics is where best laid plans go to waste.
Featured Business & Economy 20 January 2021 South Korea’s Pandemic Economy: a G7 Powerhouse Optimized for the COVID Era Korea had more top 100 companies for 2020 than any other country except US and China.
Featured Newsletter 18 January 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, January 2021 Get to know South Korea's most important political pundit.
Featured Blue House 18 January 2021 Polls Galore: TBR's Round-Up of All the Year End 2020 Polls A look into the favored next president and Seoul/Busan mayors.
Featured Society 15 January 2021 Social Distancing Strands Runaways Yet another way in which the COVID-19 prevention measures have fallen on the socially vulnerable.
Featured Liberals 14 January 2021 Beg Your Pardon? Lee Nak-yeon Makes His Move The Democratic Party Chairman Thinks Pardoning the Conservative Presidents Could be His Signature Issue.
United States 13 January 2021 Poll: US-ROK Alliance Still Very Popular For all the talk about the strained relationship between the United States and South Korea, Koreans are still overwhelmingly in favor of the alliance.
Featured Newsletter 11 January 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2021 Moon Jae-in is entering his final full year of his term. The first TBR newsletter of 2021 is supersized.
Featured Society 7 January 2021 Rich Gyeonggi-do, Poor Gyeongsang-do: Inequality by Region The area that envelops Seoul is likely to lead the political opinion, while the southeast is falling behind.
Featured COVID-19 5 January 2021 Crack in the Armor: South Korea’s Pandemic Response Slips in the Third Wave The Korean government has been walking the tightrope of fighting the virus and saving the economy. Now, it is at risk of falling off.
Featured Blue House 4 January 2021 Happy New Year: the Electoral Calendar for 2021 Yun Seok-yeol's emergence as a leading conservative presidential candidate is the trend to watch.
