Featured Society 23 August 2021 Kim Yeon-gyeong Leads the Women's Volleyball Team to Glory Despite failing to medal, the volleyball team's against-all-odds fourth place finish became one of the biggest stories of the Olympics.
Featured Society 21 August 2021 First Disabled Climber to Summit the 14 Highest Peaks Presumed Dead Kim Hong-bin's achievement took a grim turn as he went missing on his way down.
Featured North Korea 20 August 2021 With North Korea, Most Prefer Peaceful Coexistence over Unification: Survey Most South Koreans also don't think about North Korea at all.
Featured Key Players 19 August 2021 In the Male-Dominated World of South Korean Politics, Choo Mi-ae Marches On TBR profile of major presidential candidates begins with the heavyweight woman politico.
Featured North Korea 18 August 2021 Unnamed Sources in North Korea News: Data Chosun Ilbo is the most frequent purveyor of anonymous, unverifiable source of North Korean news.
Featured Newsletter 16 August 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2021 Thirtieth anniversary of Comfort Women activism, and TBR's profile of presidential candidate Jeong Se-gyun.
Featured Business & Economy 16 August 2021 Coupang's Lax Response to Warehouse Fire Turns Deadly The safety team at the warehouse disabled the fire alarm six times in the early stages of the fire.
Featured Society 14 August 2021 Bok and South Korea's Changing Perception of Animals Once a day for eating chickens and dogs is now marked with greater rights for animals and veganism.
Featured Business & Economy 13 August 2021 Pension Investment: BTS Takes Care of South Korea's Retirees The world-beating K-pop group is not just a musical sensation, but also a great investment.
Featured Society 12 August 2021 Olympics Roundup: Taekwondo to the World; An San's Golden Run Silences Incels Less nationalistic than before, South Korea takes no gold in taekwondo in a stride - but that doesn't mean sexists get to attack a triple gold medal winner.
Featured Business & Economy 11 August 2021 Hyundai Motors a Hidden Hand in South Korea's Archery Dominance The chaebol has been credited with providing new technology and fair administration.
Featured Newsletter 9 August 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2021 South Korean women's volleyball shines in the Tokyo Olympics. Yun Seok-yeol's very bad month, and TBR profile of conservative presidential candidate Won Hee-ryong.
Featured Media 9 August 2021 How MBC Failed to Screen Racist Materials from the Olympics Opening Ceremony Telecast Corporate bean-counting and toxic sports fandom culture led to this debacle.
Featured Society 7 August 2021 Women Don’t Want to Do It, Men Don’t Have Anyone to Do It with More than one-third of South Korean adults have not had sex in more than a year.
Featured Society 6 August 2021 “Youth” in the Media Disproportionately Concentrated in Seoul The voice of college educated urbanites are over-represented in the media.
Featured Conservatives 5 August 2021 Conservatives Look to Another Moon Administration Bureaucrat for a Presidential Run Choi Jae-hyeong emergence belies the conservatives' barren field of talent.
Featured Business & Economy 4 August 2021 Travel Company Yanolja Receives KRW 2t Funding from Softbank Yanolja has grown into a cloud-based hotel administration service provider.
Featured Newsletter 2 August 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, July 2021 Olympics mania sweeps South Korea, silencing the sexists for a time. The two Koreas re-connect the inter-Korean hotline.
Featured North Korea 2 August 2021 Balloon-Launching North Korean Defector Assaults Journalists Park Sang-hak also attacked the intervening police with a pepper spray.
Featured Society 31 July 2021 White Elephant Apartment in Seoul Produces a Mountain of Trash With re-development looking less likely, one of the fanciest apartments in Seoul finally decided to clean out its basement after 40 years.