Featured Newsletter 19 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2021 Another Moon Jae-in administration bureaucrats joined the opposition. South Korea battled a sweltering heat wave and a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Featured Elections 19 July 2021 The Presidential Primary Season Officially Kicks Off The Democratic Party began the television debates; the People Power Party will kick off in August.
Featured Society 17 July 2021 Data: Despite New Technologies, Household Chores Increase And most of it still falls on women.
Featured Courts 16 July 2021 Supreme Court: Non-Religious Pacifists Also Entitled to Alternate Military Service Previously, the Constitutional Court provided for alternative service for religious pacifists.
Featured Conservatives 15 July 2021 Is Yun Seok-yeol Ready for Prime Time? Yun is the leading conservative candidate for presidency, but his transition from a prosecutor to a politician has not been smooth.
Featured Business & Economy 14 July 2021 Central Bank Announces Interest Rate Hike "Within This Year" Bank of Korea cited the need to normalize the monetary policy as the asset markets sizzle.
Featured Newsletter 12 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2021 The Democratic Party made its first cut for the presidential primaries. Conservatives take aim at the Ministry of Gender Equality.
Featured Conservatives 12 July 2021 Chosun Ilbo's Vulgarities Against Liberal Politicians Reach a New Low Twice in one week, the conservative paper used image and slur evoking prostitution in connection with liberal politicians.
Business & Economy 10 July 2021 Shinsegae to Acquire eBay Korea, Shaking up the e-Commerce Market The offline retail giant is seeking to shore up online retail.
Society 9 July 2021 "We are not Data!" Exclaim the Workers for Delivery Platforms Jeon Tae-il's famous rallying cry for labor meets the 21st century economy.
Featured Foreign Policy 8 July 2021 Moon Jae-in Tours Europe as the Fog of War Against COVID-19 Clears South Korea is poised to play a major role in the post-COVID world order.
Featured Business & Economy 7 July 2021 Krafton, a Leading Videogame Company, Prepares for an IPO The publisher of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is poised to become South Korea's most valuable videogame company.
Featured Newsletter 5 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, June 2021 The proposed law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation may have a better chance this time. Presidential race kicks off in earnest.
Featured Business & Economy 5 July 2021 Mid-sized Construction Company to Buy the Troubled Eastar Jet Acquisition by Seongjeong Construction is raising eyebrows as it is making a KRW 110b bid.
Featured Key Players 3 July 2021 Obituary: Yu Sang-cheol, 50, Hero of South Korea's 2002 FIFA World Cup Run After retiring in 2006, Yu astonished the public by disclosing for the first time that he was functionally blind in his left eye and played with one eye for most of his career.
Featured Liberals 2 July 2021 Democratic Party Demands 12 of Its Lawmakers Suspected of Real Estate Speculation to Leave the Party Conservatives initially resisted investigation, but is bowing to the public pressure.
Featured Liberals 1 July 2021 Former Justice Minister's Best-Selling Memoir Compels a Look Back on the Cho Kuk Affair The former Justice Minister's new memoir is sweeping the bestseller lists.
Featured Climate Change 30 June 2021 Climate Change Comes for South Korea's Seafood The new data journalism site shows climate change is hurting cold water fish.
Featured COVID-19 29 June 2021 South Korea's Biotech Firms Thrive in the Pandemic The new richest man of South Korea is an owner of a biotech company.
Featured Newsletter 28 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2021 Former Supreme Prosecutor, the leading conservative presidential candidate, is coming under increasing scrutiny as he makes an uneven transition toward politics.
