Featured Business & Economy 21 September 2022 South Korea Loses Arbitration to Lone Star, Ordered to Pay USD 216.5m The investor-state arbitration against a US-based private equity fund was one of the biggest business litigations South Korea has faced.
Featured Newsletter 19 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol welcomed China’s top legislator, while the People Power Party attempted to whitewash a coup attempt. Also: a look at the maelstrom of controversy around the First Lady.
Featured Blue House 19 September 2022 Yoon's First Budget Proposal Cuts Back Welfare and National Defense Conservatives have criticized the aircraft carrier as only helpful to the United States.
Featured History 17 September 2022 Brothers Welfare Center Officially Recognized as State-Sanctioned Human Rights Violation The slave camp in Busan killed over 650 in its twelve years of operation during South Korea's dictatorship era.
Featured Society 16 September 2022 Fertility Rate Drops to a New Low Seoul is beginning to feel the effects as well.
Featured COVID-19 15 September 2022 Sleepwalking into a COVID Public Health Disaster The Yoon administration still has no Health Minister, and the existing personnel are not up to the task.
Featured Business & Economy 14 September 2022 “A Back-of-the-Head Strike”: US Protectionism of Electric Vehicles Draws Ire New low cuts off government assistance for EVs manufactured by South Korean carmakers.
Featured Newsletter 12 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2022 South Korea celebrated Chuseok amid soaring inflation that is dampening the spirit of the harvest season. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s quiet purge of the presidential office.
Featured Liberals 12 September 2022 Democratic Party Elects New Leadership Lee Jae-myung is the new chairman, with a firm hold in the party's leadership group.
Featured Business & Economy 9 September 2022 Chicken Game: Bargain Priced Fried Chicken Poised to Disrupt Once criticized as undercutting mom-and-pop shops, cut-rate fried chicken is now welcome as inflation rages.
Featured History 8 September 2022 "New Right" History Ascendant Again Under Conservative Presidency The right-wing revisionist history is stridently anti-communist and pro-Japanese Imperialism.
Featured Business & Economy 7 September 2022 The Quietly Roaring Private Equity Market of South Korea South Korea's maturing economy is a fertile ground for financiers.
Featured Newsletter 5 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, August 2022 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration proposed its first budget that cut welfare programs. Also: a look at what lies ahead for Lee Jae-myung, now chairman of the Democratic Party.
Featured Blue House 5 September 2022 By the Numbers: Yoon Suk-yeol's First 100 Days in Polls When asked to pick a word that reminded them of the Yoon administration, most selected "despair."
Featured Media 2 September 2022 Journalists Continue Cheering for Beleaguered Yoon Suk-yeol Media's blatant display of partisanship is a common sight in a conservative administration.
Featured Blue House 1 September 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol Responds to Deadly Flash Flood with Indifference and Insensitivity Yoon's inaction and lack of empathy are flowing down to his officials.
Featured Business & Economy 31 August 2022 South Korean Shipbuilding Dominant Through July Korea's shipbuilders fended off China's challenge with a healthy demand for LNG transports.
Featured Newsletter 29 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2022 Lee Jae-myung is the new leader of the Democratic Party, while the former leader of the People Power Party successfully sued his party. Also: sleepwalking into a COVID disaster.
Featured Foreign Policy 29 August 2022 US More Important, China Less, Japan Not at All: Data South Korean public placed greater importance on the ROK-US alliance, while Japan is nearly irrelevant.
Featured Business & Economy 26 August 2022 Meta Backs off on Personal Information Collection South Korea was the only market in which Meta threatened to terminate membership for those who did not agree to provide personal information.
