Featured Society 29 October 2020 Will the Criminalization of Abortion End in South Korea? The Constitutional Court held the abortion prohibition unconstitutional, but it is up to the government how much abortion will be allowed.
Featured Key Players 29 October 2020 Yoo Myung-hee: Korea's First Woman Trade Minister Eyes the Top WTO Spot If elected, Yoo would be the first woman director-general of the World Trade Organization.
Key Players 28 October 2020 Obituary: Lee Lee Hyo-jae, Pioneer of Feminism Lee Lee is best known for South Korea's first women's studies and the movement to use two surnames.
Featured Newsletter 26 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2020 Samsung's Lee Kun-hee is dead, while Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol's political future may be beginning.
Buzzword 26 October 2020 Buzzword: Bittoo Young Koreans are taking out loans to jump into the stock market.
Featured Op-Ed 23 October 2020 South Korea's Public Debt Cap: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish Not spending the resources today may mean less capability for addressing economic challenging tomorrow.
Featured North Korea 22 October 2020 North Korea's Response Against COVID-19: Savagery North Korea is relying on a wholesale shutdown enforced by a campaign of terror.
Featured Newsletter 20 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2020 Suga is not sweet, but Lime is definitely sour.
North Korea 20 October 2020 Poll: End the Korean War? South Koreans are Divided An even split for the formal end of the Korean War.
Featured Business & Economy 19 October 2020 No Love for Short Shorts: Korea’s Short-Selling Ban Continues World's broadest and longest short-sale ban may be feeding the stock market bubble.
Featured Key Players 16 October 2020 Kim Jong-in: Can the Most Interesting Man in Politics Save the Conservatives? The path of this blue-blooded politician has been a most unusual one.
Featured Society 15 October 2020 Poll: Who in Korea Likes Mr. Trot More than BTS? The world-beating seven-men group meets their match.
Featured COVID-19 14 October 2020 See Where the COVID-19 Wrecking Ball Hit Seoul’s Businesses A visual map of all the small businesses in Seoul that have recently closed their doors.
Featured Newsletter 12 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2020 In North Korea, a new big missile; in South Korea, renewed debate over abortion rights.
Featured Society 12 October 2020 The Politics of Contactless Chuseok Chuseok is normally a political high season, but this year, the biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
Featured Society 8 October 2020 South Korea's Poverty is Worse than It Looks, and Other Quantitative Insights Korea’s poor are much poorer than the official data might indicate. On the bright side, inequality and social mobility data are better than meets the eye.
Featured Key Players 7 October 2020 Lee Hae-chan Rides into the Sunset Former chairman of the Democratic Party may be the most important non-president politician in modern South Korean political history.
Featured Newsletter 5 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, September 2020 Although Chuseok is normally a political high season, Korea’s politicians and activists struggled to gain traction as the year’s biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
Featured Business & Economy 5 October 2020 Domesticity Businesses Thrive in the Pandemic As Koreans are compelled to spend more time at home, businesses that cater to home improvement are booming.
Featured Key Players 3 October 2020 Lee vs. Lee: Jostling for 2022 With conservatives in disarray, the two leading liberal candidates may be the main competition for the 2022 presidential election.
Featured Media 2 October 2020 Twice in a Row, Conservative Media Targets the Justice Minister’s Family Vigilance over influence-peddling is necessary, but why do only the children of Justice Ministers receive scrutiny?
Featured Business & Economy 1 October 2020 KFTC Enforcement is Coming for Google, Netflix, and Other Online Platforms Korea Fair Trade Commission is one of the world's most active antitrust regulators.
Featured Key Players 30 September 2020 Im Eun-jeong: Maverick Woman Prosecutor is the Prosecutors’ Office Watchdog Im emerged as a leading internal critic of the Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol.
Featured Newsletter 28 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2020 North Korea murdered a South Korean civil servant who attempted to defect; Chuseok holidays are here, and BTS gave a speech at the UN.
Featured COVID-19 28 September 2020 Corona Blues: Suicide Trends Take a Turn for the Worse The pandemic is particularly affecting the mental health of young women.
Featured Conservatives 25 September 2020 Conservatives Re-brand as the People Power Party In South Korean politics, the frequency of a party’s name change reflects the extent of the trouble they are in. By that measure, South Korea’s conservatives are in deep trouble.
Featured Breaking News 24 September 2020 Breaking News Analysis: North Korea Kills and Burns the Body of a Defecting South Korean Official The barbaric killing will inevitably damage the Moon administration's inter-Korean agenda, but is unlikely to make a lasting impact in the domestic politics.
Featured Business & Economy 23 September 2020 Inequality in the Times of COVID-19 The pandemic's economic impact is landing disproportionately on the women, children and the poor.
Featured Newsletter 21 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2020 The Moon administration bent the curve once again, but the chuseok holidays and conservative rallies are looming.
Business & Economy 21 September 2020 Contactless Kiosks are the New Digital Divide Photo: Unmanned kiosk ordering system in McDonald's in Seoul.Credit: The Blue Roof. Hankook Research 한국리서치 conducted an in-depth survey [https://hrcopinion.co.kr/archives/16318] of Koreans’ attitudes toward digital devices. South Korea is among the world’s most high tech societies, with 99.7% of the
Featured Healthcare 17 September 2020 Young Doctors Run Toward a Blind Alley South Korea may produce fewer than 100 doctors next year as a result of the doctors' strike.
Business & Economy 15 September 2020 New Initiative for Service Industry Exports Six promising service industries are selected for export promotion.
Featured Newsletter 14 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2020 As the intra-party race for the next presidency is taking shape, the new coronavirus economic relief package is becoming a flash point for Lee Nak-yeon and Lee Jae-myung.
Buzzword 14 September 2020 Buzzword: Rice Bowl Fight An ugly, unseemly kind of struggle over money and livelihood
Featured Conservatives 10 September 2020 Can Conservatives and Evangelicals Quit Each Other? With the controversial pastor being blamed for the second wave of COVID-19 outbreak, the conservatives are running for cover.
Business & Economy 9 September 2020 Korean Consumer Electronics: Wired to Wireless More wireless devices are entering Koreans' everyday lives.
Healthcare 8 September 2020 Meme of the Week: "No Thanks to You" Medical students tell the public how they really feel about them.
Featured Newsletter 7 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2020 South Korea’s conservatives are attempting to re-brand as People Power Party, but they find themselves out of power without the people's support.
Featured Starter Kit 6 September 2020 South Korea's Political Parties: the Basics Because political parties change their names frequently, it is easier to understand South Korean politics by referring to the continuous political streams rather than focusing on names.
Key Players 3 September 2020 Jeon Gwang-hun: the Firebrand Conservative Pastor who Went (Literally) Viral On the streets of Seoul, Pastor Jeon Gwang-hun is the de facto conservative leader.
Healthcare 2 September 2020 Doctors Strike Against More Doctors Help not wanted, even amid the pandemic.
Trivia 1 September 2020 The President's Summer Reading The books the president reads often become bestsellers, as the public seeks to gauge the mind of their leader.
Newsletter 31 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2020 In the fourth week of August, South Korea’s healthcare hangs in the balance as a second wave of coronavirus infections threaten the country.
Newsletter 25 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2020 In the third week of August 2020, the second wave of COVID-19 caused by conservative religious rallies is in full swing.
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Japan's Trade War on South Korea, One Year Later Mostly a swing and a miss.
Newsletter 25 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2020 In the second week of August 2020, conservative rallies spark a new wave of COVID-19 outbreak while South Korea is recovering from the longest monsoon season ever.
Featured Announcement 25 August 2020 Introducing TBR The Blue Roof's mission is to cover the politics of one of the most important countries in the world's most important region.
Key Players 25 August 2020 Style and Substance: Two Freshman Legislators Make a Splash Two female legislators, both first-term Assembly Members of minor parties born in the 1990s, are making waves.
Recommendations 25 August 2020 Elder Poverty and Subsistence-Labor South Korea's elder poverty is the country's least discussed problem. A new book makes it a little less so.
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Make Sejong Great Again: Democratic Party Tries Capital Relocation One More Time The Constitutional Court of Korea 헌법재판소 held in 2006 that Korea’s capital cannot be relocated absent a constitutional amendment. 14 years later, the Democratic Party 민주당 is trying again.
