Featured Conservatives 6 May 2022 With PPP, the Exams Never End Worship of meritocracy is a pillar of the "new conservatives."
Featured Blue House 5 May 2022 Reading the Tea Leaves of Yoon Suk-yeol’s First Cabinet The nominees foretell a politics by investigation.
Featured Business & Economy 4 May 2022 Bank of Korea Raises Interest Rate, Pressuring the Real Estate Market Stress on the real estate market is beginning to emerge outside of Seoul.
Featured Newsletter 2 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2022 The Democratic Party passed one of the two prosecution reform bills. Our look on the first month of 26-year-old Park Ji-hyeon as the Democratic Party leader.
Featured Society 2 May 2022 Most Favor BTS Military Exemption Except Current Soldiers: Poll Even the men who recently completed military service are in favor.
Featured Society 29 April 2022 The Middle Class Thinks They're Not: Data A significant portion of South Korea's middle class consider themselves to be poor.
Featured Conservatives 28 April 2022 Garo Sero Institute: the Fount of Far-Right Misinformation South Korea's resurgent right takes it cues from its Youtube channel.
Featured Healthcare 27 April 2022 Privatized Healthcare Fears Rise Following a Court Ruling on For-Profit Hospitals Jeju District Court's ruling may be the first step toward privatizing healthcare over the long term.
Featured Newsletter 25 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2022 The Democratic Party tries to pass the last-minute law to limit the power of prosecutors.
Featured Media 25 April 2022 Media Obsesses Over Yoon's Lunch Menu, Wife's Flip-Flops Hundreds of articles were published about what Yoon Suk-yeol had for lunch and what his wife wore while holding a dog.
Featured Conservatives 22 April 2022 Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Justice Minister Nominee, Charges His Rival for Defamation Governance by prosecution begins.
Featured Elections 21 April 2022 Daejang-dong Scandal, Revisited The real estate scandal dominated the election, but resulted in nothing.
Featured History 20 April 2022 Hong Seong-u, 84, Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney Hong, who resigned from the bench to protest the Park Chung-hee dictatorship, was involved in nearly every major legal case in South Korea's democracy activism.
Featured Newsletter 18 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol announced his first cabinet. Should BTS be exempt from military service?
Featured Business & Economy 18 April 2022 Ssangyong Motors Adrift Again as Edison Motors Deal Fails The troubled automaker lost yet another buyer.
Featured Conservatives 15 April 2022 FKI’s Data Malpractice in the Presidency Move Even by the relaxed standards for a commissioned research, the claim of expected economic benefits from the Blue House move is unusually bold.
Featured Blue House 14 April 2022 Conservative Smear Campaign Against the Moon Administration Begins in Earnest The tendentious claims against Moon are designed to evoke the actual corrupt episodes of Park Geun-hye.
Featured Conservatives 13 April 2022 Park Geun-hye Signals a Return to Politics Park's personal attorney will run for mayor in Daegu, the conservative stronghold that is the former president's hometown.
Featured Newsletter 11 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2022 Prosecutors dropped charges against key Yoon Suk-yeol ally while indicting a prominent liberal politician. TBR's profile of Garo Sero Institute, South Korea's premier peddler of right-wing misinformation.
Featured Liberals 11 April 2022 Lee Jae-myung’s Very Feminist Campaign Lee may have lost the presidential election, but he gained a long-term asset: young women supporters.