Featured Key Players 26 March 2021 Obituary: Staff Sergeant Byeon Hee-su, a Pioneer of Transgender Rights Byeon was South Korea’s first publicly known transgender soldier who fought for her right to serve in the military.
Featured Blue House 25 March 2021 Poll: How Every Korean President Fared Over Five (or Less) Years South Korean politics is a brutal landscape for any president.
Featured Business & Economy 24 March 2021 EV Popularity Leaves Workers and Parts Suppliers Shaking Electric vehicles are supposed to be the wave of the future, but they also threaten to displace a major industry.
Featured Newsletter 22 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2021 High-ranking Biden administration officials visited Seoul and left confusion in their wake. TBR presents a political overview of Busan, South Korea’s prosperous second city.
Featured Conservatives 22 March 2021 LH Scandal Upends the Seoul Mayor Race as O Se-hun Surges Democrat Park Yeong-seon appeared to be sailing into the City Hall until the real estate scandal derailed her campaign.
Courts 20 March 2021 Criminal "Defamation-by-Facts" Law Held Constitutional The crime of defamation-by-facts has been criticized for potentially infringing upon freedom of speech, and for being used as a tool to silence whistleblowers.
COVID-19 19 March 2021 LDS Syringes a Crucial Link in COVID-19 Vaccination Medium-sized South Korean companies are coming up big in syringes that squeeze the vaccine's last drop.
Featured Liberals 18 March 2021 The Decline and Degradation of the Justice Party What was once a broad alliance of labor unions, farmers' organizations and young idealists is now the party of the urban hipsters.
Featured History 17 March 2021 55th Anniversary of the Tay Vinh Massacre in the Vietnam War One of the worst atrocities committed by South Korea's military.
Featured Liberals 16 March 2021 Poll: Democratic Party the Most Progressive Supporters of the main liberal party identified themselves as more progress than minor leftist parties.
Featured Newsletter 15 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2021 The Seoul mayoral election is in turmoil with the latest real estate scandal. The presidential election is less than one year away.
Featured Business & Economy 15 March 2021 Basic Income: the Next Step in the Pandemic Economy? The COVID-19 pandemic and the leading presidential candidate is making the once-outlandish idea mainstream.
Featured Liberals 13 March 2021 Poll: What Young South Korean Liberals Want Young liberals want social democratic economy, loose unification with North Korea, and no part of China.
Featured Business & Economy 12 March 2021 South Korea and Taiwan: the "New OPEC" of Semiconductors Dominance of South Korea and Taiwan in semiconductors has geopolitical implications.
Key Players 11 March 2021 Obituary: Baek Gi-wan, a Lifelong Fighter for Democracy and Unification Baek was one of South Korea's first civic activists for democracy.
Featured COVID-19 10 March 2021 Vaccine Politics Threaten to Derail South Korea's COVID-19 Response South Korea succeeded in combating the pandemic despite fractious politics rather than thanks to sheep-like conformity.
Featured Newsletter 8 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2021 The major parties set their tickets for the Seoul and Busan mayor by-elections, now just one month away. Also, a look at how Moon Jae-in has fared compared to other presidents at the same point in their terms, and remembering the pioneer of transgender rights in military.
Featured COVID-19 8 March 2021 Doctors Threaten to Boycott COVID-19 Vaccination to Prevent Losing License After Committing Felony The doctors find it intolerable that they may lose their license after committing murder or sexual assault.
Featured National Security 6 March 2021 Recognizing South Korea as a Military Power South Korea's superior conventional weaponry may act as a hindrance to denuclearizing North Korea.
Business & Economy 5 March 2021 LG Chem Defeats SK Innovation in the EV Battery Duel in the US Court The two South Korean giants of EV batteries have been litigating each other in the United States.
