Featured Newsletter 31 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol honored the memory of a dead dictator, but not the people who died in the Itaewon Disaster. Also: media suppression intensifies.
Culture 30 October 2023 Faker, the Gold Medalist The greatest pro gamer of all time took the inaugural gold medal in the Asian Games.
Liberals 27 October 2023 Court Denies Arrest Warrant for Lee Jae-myung Court found no direct evidence of prosecutors' charges against Lee.
National Security 26 October 2023 The Chickenhawk’s Military Parade The president who never served his military duty was delighted to lead a military parade.
Society 25 October 2023 Poll: Two Gyeonggi-do Provinces? Majority favors splitting up South Korea's most populous province.
Featured Newsletter 23 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol visited Saudi Arabia without his Secretary of Protocol. Also: The Itaewon Disaster, one year later.
Liberals 23 October 2023 Continued Lynching of Cho Kuk's Family The Yoon Suk-yeol administration continues to hound the former Justice Minister's daughter.
Business & Economy 20 October 2023 Record Number of Construction Company Failures The number of construction company bankruptcies is the highest since 2006.
Liberals 19 October 2023 Lee Jae-myung Faces Down a Mutiny The liberal leader faces his greatest test yet.
Featured Newsletter 16 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol administration faced the fallout from a landslide loss in the Gangseo-gu District by-election. Also: a primer on South Korea and Israel.
Featured Society 13 October 2023 Season of Cheese: Festival in Imsil-gun Now, for something light-hearted.
Featured Breaking News 11 October 2023 Breaking News: Democratic Party Scores a Thumping Victory in the Gangseo-gu District By-Election The by-election is seen as the preview for the upcoming Assembly Election.
Featured Business & Economy 11 October 2023 Household Debt Creeps Up Again Mortgages taken out by investors attempting to buy the debt is raising household debt to a dangerous level.
Featured Newsletter 9 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2023 The National Assembly rejected the Chief Justice nomination for the first time in 35 years. Also: the implications of a Gangseo-gu District by-election.
Featured United States 9 October 2023 Low Trust in the US Election System: Survey Joe Biden remains more popular than Donald Trump among Koreans.
Featured Media 6 October 2023 Prosecutors Raid Liberal Media Outlets Reporting on Prosecutors' Misuse of Budget The International Federation of Journalists denounced the raids, calling them “intimidation and legal harassment”.
Featured Bureaucracy 5 October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Retrograde Cabinet Appointments Openly advocating for military coup is not a dealbreaker for this administration.
Featured Buzzword 4 October 2023 "Cartel": Yoon Suk-yeol's New Favorite Word "Did you just learn that word? Because you tend to say it a lot."
Featured Newsletter 3 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2023 Lee Jae-myung avoided arrest while Yoon Suk-yeol held a military parade. South Korea celebrated Chuseok.
Featured Society 2 October 2023 Polls About Polls: Data Koreans generally trust surveys, but not the ones about politics.