Featured Business & Economy 25 August 2023 Will a Tax Cut Boost South Korea's Birth Rate? Yet another way to justify tax cut for the rich.
Featured Society 24 August 2023 The Jamboree from Hell Under the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, a major international event ends in tears.
COVID-19 23 August 2023 Public Wary of a New COVID Wave: Data Strong majority opposes relaxation of masking requirements.
Featured Newsletter 22 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol met with Joe Biden and Kishida Fumio at Camp David. Also: Climate change comes for South Korea.
Featured Society 21 August 2023 South Korea Slips Backwards in Gender Equality: Data No other advanced industrialized country showed this type of regression.
Featured Society 19 August 2023 Sexist Attacks Against a Videogame Illustrator Unfortunately, the incels are at it again.
Featured Business & Economy 18 August 2023 Did a Ragtag Group of South Korean Scientists Discover a Room-Temperature Superconductor? Probably not.
Featured North Korea 17 August 2023 The Paradox of Division: Seventy Years since the Armistice The Korean War is a forever war because the two Koreas cannot let it end.
Featured Courts 16 August 2023 Constitutional Court Rejects Interior Minister Impeachment over the Itaewon Disaster The result was expected, as the court previously held that incompetence was not grounds for impeachment.
Featured Newsletter 14 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2023 The embarrassing mismanagement of the World Scout Jamboree ended with one of the most disgraceful K-pop concerts in history.
Featured Business & Economy 14 August 2023 Minimum Wage Rises by 2.5% for 2024 The meager increase is lower than the rate of inflation.
Featured Society 12 August 2023 Elementary School Teacher’s Suicide Raises Questions About Bullying by Rich Parents Teachers' union blamed helicopter parents; Yoon Suk-yeol blamed North Korea.
Featured Blue House 11 August 2023 South Koreans Want the First Lady Out of Sight: Data Kim Geon-hee has been a major reason for her husband's historically low popularity.
Featured Conservatives 10 August 2023 Flood Deaths: Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous than Others Routine management issues handled competently under liberal governments become deadly disasters under conservative administrations.
Featured Blue House 9 August 2023 Spiritual Advisor Inspected Potential Presidential Residence Site: Police Conservative spokesman defended the bearded mystic as "the leading authority in future prediction studies.'
Featured Newsletter 7 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2023 utter mismanagement of the World Scout Jamboree shut down the event early as thousands of scouts suffered from heat stroke and bug bites.
Featured Blue House 7 August 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol's Mother-in-Law Sentenced to Prison Choi Eun-sun was charged with forging loan documents.
Featured Society 5 August 2023 South Koreans are Happier than They Think: Data South Koreans are happier than Norwegians or Canadians. The difference is what they think of other Koreans' happiness.
Featured Foreign Policy 4 August 2023 Insider Account of Moon Jae-in Era Diplomacy Choi Jong-geon's new book is a manifesto of South Korean liberals' inter-Korean policy.
Featured North Korea 3 August 2023 Dog and Pony Show of North Korean Defectors Taste of show business taught some defectors that some stories sell better than others.