Featured Newsletter 10 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2023 First Lady Kim Geon-hee was mired in a real estate scandal involving a new planned highway. Also: the return of the Lee Myung-bak era.
Featured Media 10 July 2023 Chosun Ilbo: the Least Trusted Name in News South Korea's largest newspaper leads the way in the Korean public's distrust of the news.
Featured Culture 7 July 2023 Poets, Authors Dragged out of Seoul International Book Fair Presidential security removed protesting writers.
Featured Japan 6 July 2023 Fukushima Radioactive Wastewater Adds Another Millstone Around Yoon’s Neck Planned release of wastewater is driving South Koreans to hoard sea salt.
Featured Business & Economy 5 July 2023 Capital Control Regulations Relaxed South Korea sheds the developmental era restrictions on foreign currency exchange.
Featured Newsletter 3 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol called liberals “anti-state forces” while appointing a new Unification Minister. Also: the state of South Korea’s LGBTQ+ movement.
Featured Conservatives 3 July 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol Administration Boycotts the June Struggle Memorial Yoon became the first South Korean president to refuse to honor the country's transition to democracy.
Featured Society 30 June 2023 South Korea’s First Transgender Athlete in an Official Competition Na Hwa-rin, a cyclist, won her event in the Gangwon-do Provincial Games.
Featured Courts 29 June 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Unconstitutional Court-Packing The president's threat to withhold Supreme Court justice appointment is a direct challenge to the constitutional separation of powers.
Featured Elections 28 June 2023 Early Look at Assembly Election, Presidential Election People Power Party is in a hole, while Lee Jae-myung leads the polls for the favored next president.
Featured Newsletter 26 June 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol visited Paris and Hanoi while Pride Parades faced government interference. Also: TBR’s viewer’s guide for the 2024 Assembly Election, now just nine months away.
Featured Business & Economy 26 June 2023 South Korea’s Per Capita GNI Plummets, Falls Behind Taiwan’s. Yet another economic indicator blinking red.
Featured Society 23 June 2023 Workplace Sex Discrimination: By the Numbers South Korean women are hired less than men, promoted less than men, and paid less than men with the same occupation and seniority.
Featured Society 22 June 2023 Immigrant Nannies: Are They the Answer for South Korea’s Low Birth Rate? Proposal for discounted foreign workers sparks controversy.
Featured Japan 21 June 2023 Japanese Naval Ship Flying Rising Sun Flag Docks at Busan Japan has persisted in using the equivalent of Nazi Germany's swastika.
Featured Newsletter 19 June 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2023 The planned release of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant added to pressures on the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, which tinkered with the all-important college entrance exam.
Featured Business & Economy 19 June 2023 Korean Air-Asiana Merger on the Rocks with US, EU Antitrust Regulators Proposed merger of South Korea's two largest airline piqued the attention of competition authorities around the world.
Featured Media 16 June 2023 Yoon Administration Raids MBC News Journalist’s Residence, Workplace Journalist Im Hyeon-ju previously reported Yoon Suk-yeol's embarrassing hot mic moment.
Featured Healthcare 15 June 2023 Veto of the Nursing Act Makes the Yoon Suk-yeol Administration Yet Another Enemy Horrendous working conditions of South Korean nurses have no relief in sight.
Featured Media 14 June 2023 Chosun Ilbo’s Media Law Arbitrage Chosun's nominal non-media affiliate handles the most tendentious and sensationalistic coverage.
