Featured Society 2 November 2022 Searching for an Answer in the Itaewon Halloween Disaster Any investigation must answer this simple question: what was different about this event, this year, when Itaewon Halloween festivities have gone on for years?
Featured Newsletter 31 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2022 South Korea suffered one of the worst public safety lapses in its history as Halloween festivities in Itaewon led to 155 deaths.
Featured Blue House 31 October 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol Administration Attacks High School Cartoon Drawing Competition Censorship by threats is a time-honored tradition for conservatives.
Featured Breaking News 29 October 2022 Breaking News: Stampede at Itaewon Halloween Party Causes At Least 120 Deaths The disaster is the largest crushing death incident in South Korean history.
Featured Society 28 October 2022 Use of Chinese Characters is Fading, but Most Still Favor Teaching Them: Data More than 650 years since Hangeul was invented, the debate continues.
Featured Starter Kit 27 October 2022 Starter Kit: South Korea’s Media Landscape Conservatives are dominant in the traditional media, while liberals find their outlet on the internet.
Featured Business & Economy 26 October 2022 Proposed ‘Yellow Envelope Act’ Seeks to Protect Striking Workers The proposed law would stop corporations from suing the striking union members in retaliation.
Featured Newsletter 24 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2022 Prosecutors raided the main opposition party headquarters for the first time since the dictatorship era, and arrested two Moon Jae-in administration officials. Also: an awful death at South Korea’s largest bakery chain, and the gratuitous Legoland credit crisis.
Featured Bureaucracy 24 October 2022 Interior Ministry Formally Proposes Abolition of the Gender Equality Ministry Abolition of the Gender Equality Ministry was a major campaign promise of Yoon Suk-yeol, who rode the tide of aggressive misogyny.
Featured History 21 October 2022 Supreme Court Orders Reparations for Sex Workers Serving US Military Reminiscent of Imperial Japan's "Comfort Women," the organized sex trade near US bases in Korea involved horrendous human rights violations.
Featured Media 20 October 2022 MBC News Faces Conservative Wrath Once Again South Korea's conservatives have had a longstanding grudge against the network dating back to the Lee Myung-bak era.
Featured Blue House 19 October 2022 "Biden" vs "Nallimyeon": Gaslighting Works for Some For around a quarter of the South Korean public, a clearly audible word is no barrier to believing what they want.
Featured Newsletter 17 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2022 North Korea continued to escalate tensions as South Korea debated having its own nuclear weapons. Also: the partisan visions of South Korea's grand strategy.
Featured Society 15 October 2022 The Old School Dreams of Young Men Outside of Seoul Young men in industrial cities dream of forming a traditional family. Critics have called it sexism.
Featured Conservatives 14 October 2022 Potential New Party of Lee Jun-seok Draws Solid Support: Data The ousted former party chairman could be a meaningful third party option.
Featured Society 13 October 2022 The New Landscape of South Korean Politics A statistical breakdown shows six major groups of voters in South Korean politics that go beyond the traditional left-right divide.
Featured Climate Change 12 October 2022 Samsung Electronics Signs Onto RE100 Amid Yoon Administration’s Hostility to Renewable Energy Samsung Electronics, South Korea's largest consumer of electricity, will transition into 100% renewable energy by 2050.
Featured Newsletter 11 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2022 North Korea tested a long range missile over Japan while a South Korean missile drill almost caused a disaster. Also: TBR’s starter kit on South Korea’s media landscape.
Featured Foreign Policy 10 October 2022 Hot Mic Moment Tops Yoon Suk-yeol's Disastrous International Tour Following the embarrassing moment in which Yoon gossiped about Joe Biden in vulgar language, the presidential office responded with a brazen gaslighting.
Featured Culture 8 October 2022 The Strange Affair of BTS in Busan BTS's first concert since its hiatus is facing accusations of corrupt quid pro quo.
