Featured Media 3 January 2023 MBC Cleans up in Ratings Since Yoon Suk-yeol's inauguration, the liberal-leaning TV station soared in viewership.
Featured Blue House 2 January 2023 First Lady Clearly Involved Stock Manipulation Scheme, Still Faces No Investigation Deutsche Motors stock manipulation trial continues to produce evidence against Kim Geon-hee.
Featured Announcement 30 December 2022 TBR's Most Read Stories of 2022, and a Special Thank You The Blue Roof's had a successful second year.
Featured Blue House 29 December 2022 2022 Year in Review: An Error-Ridden Beginning for Yoon Suk-yeol, with More to Come Failing both domestically and internationally, Yoon Suk-yeol focused solely on attacking his adversaries with selective application of the law. Expect more of the same in 2023.
Featured Society 28 December 2022 ‘Erring Without Correction': 2022 Idiom of the Year Runner-up: "What is covered up only shines brighter."
Featured Culture 27 December 2022 Move Over BTS: Im Yeong-ung and IU Take Top Spots of 2022's Best Poll shows younger generation favoring K-pop's most streamed artists, while the older generation gravitated toward trot superstar.
Featured Conservatives 26 December 2022 Yoon Administration Takes Jeju Massacre Out of History Textbooks Ministry of Education justified the move as "exploring the foundation of the Republic of Korea based on liberal democracy."
Featured Society 23 December 2022 2022 Qatar World Cup: South Korea Delivers Instant Classic Defeating Portugal 2-1, the Taegeuk Warriors reached the Round of 16 for just the third time in eleven tries.
Featured Newsletter 21 December 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2022 A year in review in TBR's final newsletter for 2022.
Featured Conservatives 19 December 2022 Seoul City Council Shuts Down TBS Radio for Hosting a Popular Liberal Pundit Seoul Mayor O Se-hun: "TBS should reflect on whether it has been faithful to its role as a publicly owned station."
Featured Media 16 December 2022 International Press Shines in Itaewon Disaster Coverage The excellent coverage by the foreign press is putting the South Korean press to shame.
Featured Society 15 December 2022 South Korea's War on Drugs A "drug-free nation" begins its own problematic program.
Featured Business & Economy 14 December 2022 FTX Wreckage Washes Ashore in South Korea Busan's ambition to be a crypto hub took a hit.
Featured Newsletter 13 December 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2022 The National Assembly again recommended that a cabinet minister be terminated. Also: The Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s appeals to xenophobic bigotry.
Featured Society 12 December 2022 Overwhelmingly Negative Response to the Handling of Itaewon Disaster: Poll A plurality called for Yoon Suk-yeol's entire cabinet to resign.
Featured Conservatives 9 December 2022 People Power Party Calls for Nuclear Armament The ruling conservative party issued a report proposing “a secret project to secure the potential for nuclear armament” by studying “the optimal course for nuclear armament.”
Featured Society 8 December 2022 Itaewon Disaster Drip-Feeds into Politics Victims' families are beginning to gather, and the National Assembly launched its investigative committee.
Featured Business & Economy 7 December 2022 Truckers Strike Again for Minimum Guaranteed Pay Truck drivers are demanding continuation and expansion of the Freight Safety Fee.
Featured Newsletter 5 December 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, November 2022 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration cracked down on the truckers’ strike. South Korea’s men’s national team made a glorious run in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Featured North Korea 5 December 2022 Greater Attention and Pessimism over North Korean Human Rights: Data More focus, but less hope.