Featured North Korea 5 December 2024 North Korea: the Centre Cannot Hold The Yoon administration's inter-Korean policies have failed completely.
Featured Business & Economy 4 December 2024 Increasing Number of “Freeters” More people work part time jobs that do not lead to a career.
Breaking News 3 December 2024 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol Declares Martial Law On December 3, 2024 at 10:23 p.m., President Yoon Suk-yeol 윤석열 대통령 declared martial law 계엄령, in the first suspension of democratic rights in South Korea since the end of military dictatorship in 1987. In a statement, Yoon claimed that the National Assembly 국회's 22 impeachment
Featured Bureaucracy 2 December 2024 McCarthyist Historical Revisionism Creeps Back Yoon administration officials are once again claiming that the Gwangju Uprising was a communist plot.
Featured Business & Economy 29 November 2024 Wages Trend Upward: Data Average wage reached record high.
Featured Culture 28 November 2024 Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Makes History Han distinguishes herself with her intersection between historical events and bodily integrity.
Featured Business & Economy 27 November 2024 Samsung Electronics Issues an Apology for Poor Performance South Korea's leading firm is posting a dismal result.
Featured Newsletter 25 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2024 Lee Jae-myung fought off one criminal charge, while more allegations against First Lady Kim Geon-hee came to light.
Featured Business & Economy 25 November 2024 Price of Kimchi Ingredients Skyrockets Customers are lukewarm to Chinese imports intended to relieve the pressure.
Featured Business & Economy 22 November 2024 Culinary Class Wars Lifts South Korea’s Fine Dining Scene The hit Netflix show is revitalizing the industry hit by the pandemic.
Featured Starter Kit 21 November 2024 Starter Kit: The Complex Legacy of Koreans in Japan The stateless Koreans in Japan are living testaments to Imperial Japan's colonialism.
Featured Foreign Policy 20 November 2024 Koreans Cool on Israel-Palestine Conflict: Data Attention to the conflict has declined since last year.
Featured Newsletter 18 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2024 A criminal conviction leaves Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party at a crossroads.
Featured Blue House 15 November 2024 Increasing Demand for First Lady Investigation: Data Even the most loyal conservatives are turning on the president's wife.
Featured Blue House 14 November 2024 Latest Allegations Against First Lady: Election Interference Somehow, Kim Geon-hee adds yet another serious allegation to her long list.
Featured Business & Economy 13 November 2024 Hanwha Ocean Wins Key US Navy Contract The defense contractor is a newcomer to shipbuilding.
Featured Newsletter 11 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2024 Donald Trump’s election drives Seoul closer to nuclear armament.
Featured History 11 November 2024 Obituary: Park Dong-seon, Mastermind of “Koreagate” The Korean American businessman was at the center of the lowest point in US-South Korea alliance.
Featured Society 8 November 2024 For Chuseok, Two Contrasting Looks: Data Some travel abroad; others avoid visiting home.
Featured Blue House 7 November 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol Trudges into Chuseok The least popular president in South Korean history has little shot of a rebound.
Featured Business & Economy 6 November 2024 Foreign Currency Stability Fund Gets Cut Amid Low Tax Receipt The Yoon Suk-yeol administration is pilfering every possible corner of the government.
Featured Newsletter 5 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, October 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol drew closer to the edge of the cliff.
Featured Media 4 November 2024 MBC News Soars in Trustworthiness The liberal-leaning channel has been rising as the Yoon Suk-yeol administration drops further in popularity.
Featured Society 1 November 2024 Concern over “Right to Teach”: Data Teachers are being bullied by overbearing parents.
Featured Key Players 31 October 2024 Key Players: Korea Freedom Federation, the Official Brownshirts of the South Korean Right The quasi-governmental civic group has long been an unofficial arm of the right-wing government.
Featured Business & Economy 30 October 2024 National Pension Reform Proposal Draws Criticism The government's proposal calls for different rate of increase in premium for different age brackets.
Featured Newsletter 28 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2024 The rift between Yoon Suk-yeol and Han Dong-hun may have become irreparable.
Featured Bureaucracy 28 October 2024 New Commissioner a Step Backwards for the National Human Rights Commission An Chang-ho is notorious for his homophobic stance and denial of the theory of evolution.
Featured Japan 25 October 2024 The Disappearing Dokdo Islets The Yoon Suk-yeol administration surrenders yet again.
Featured Society 23 October 2024 Shocking Amount of Deepfake Porn: Data Majority of all deepfake porn in the world features a Korean subject.
Featured Newsletter 21 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2024 North Korea sent its soldiers to Russia.
Featured Business & Economy 21 October 2024 Financial Investment Income Tax Becomes a Hot Potato The new tax was a landmark legislation for the Moon Jae-in administration.
Featured Society 18 October 2024 Greater Pension Coverage, But Still a Ways to Go: Data Gaps in coverage fall most heavily on those who can least afford them.
Featured Liberals 17 October 2024 What Lies Ahead of Lee Jae-myung The liberal leader is considered the presumptive next president, but the road ahead remains unpredictable.
Featured Business & Economy 16 October 2024 Public and Private Sector Debts Skyrocket Plummeting tax receipts led to a massive increase in government debt.
Featured Newsletter 15 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2024 Author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Featured Japan 14 October 2024 Korean School Wins Japanese High School Baseball Championship The tiny school that faced closure was saved by baseball.
Featured Bureaucracy 11 October 2024 Incels in the Police The police has taken the side of young men's paranoid misogyny.
Featured History 10 October 2024 The Liberation Day Schism South Korean right-wing's historical revisionism went from hints to explicit initiatives.
Featured Society 9 October 2024 Pilot Program for Filipina Domestic Workers Raises Labor Abuse Concerns Imported "caregivers" are exposed to wage theft and abuse.
Featured Newsletter 8 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2024 The Office of the President sprung a navy’s worth of leaks.
Featured Business & Economy 8 October 2024 Workers Gave Up Summer Vacation Because of Cost: Data Credit: Public domain. Summer is typically a time for rest and relaxation, but South Korea’s sluggish economy has caused many to put their plans on hold. According to a survey of workers conducted by Global Research from May 31 to June 10 and released on August 4, only 48.
Featured Newsletter 30 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2024 First Lady Kim Geon-hee found herself in yet another kind of trouble.
Featured Newsletter 17 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol faces a downcast Chuseok holiday.
Featured Business & Economy 13 September 2024 Koreans Intrigued by AI: Data Public interest in AI has jumped significantly.
Featured Bureaucracy 12 September 2024 Prosecutors Face Down the End of the Road Prosecutors created the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. Will they fall with it?
Featured Business & Economy 10 September 2024 Massive EV Battery Fire Raises Safety Concerns Can EV be safely stored in South Korea's dense parking lots?
Featured Newsletter 9 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol spurned the National Assembly, while his foreign policy advisor patronized Kamala Harris.
Featured Culture 9 September 2024 Olympics: South Korea Outperforms Expectations Unexpectedly strong result came with allegations of mistreating athletes.
