North Korea 20 October 2020 Poll: End the Korean War? South Koreans are Divided An even split for the formal end of the Korean War.
Featured Business & Economy 19 October 2020 No Love for Short Shorts: Korea’s Short-Selling Ban Continues World's broadest and longest short-sale ban may be feeding the stock market bubble.
Featured Key Players 16 October 2020 Kim Jong-in: Can the Most Interesting Man in Politics Save the Conservatives? The path of this blue-blooded politician has been a most unusual one.
Featured Society 15 October 2020 Poll: Who in Korea Likes Mr. Trot More than BTS? The world-beating seven-men group meets their match.
Featured COVID-19 14 October 2020 See Where the COVID-19 Wrecking Ball Hit Seoul’s Businesses A visual map of all the small businesses in Seoul that have recently closed their doors.
Featured Newsletter 12 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2020 In North Korea, a new big missile; in South Korea, renewed debate over abortion rights.
Featured Society 12 October 2020 The Politics of Contactless Chuseok Chuseok is normally a political high season, but this year, the biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
Featured Society 8 October 2020 South Korea's Poverty is Worse than It Looks, and Other Quantitative Insights Korea’s poor are much poorer than the official data might indicate. On the bright side, inequality and social mobility data are better than meets the eye.
Featured Key Players 7 October 2020 Lee Hae-chan Rides into the Sunset Former chairman of the Democratic Party may be the most important non-president politician in modern South Korean political history.
Featured Newsletter 5 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, September 2020 Although Chuseok is normally a political high season, Korea’s politicians and activists struggled to gain traction as the year’s biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
Featured Business & Economy 5 October 2020 Domesticity Businesses Thrive in the Pandemic As Koreans are compelled to spend more time at home, businesses that cater to home improvement are booming.
Featured Key Players 3 October 2020 Lee vs. Lee: Jostling for 2022 With conservatives in disarray, the two leading liberal candidates may be the main competition for the 2022 presidential election.
Featured Media 2 October 2020 Twice in a Row, Conservative Media Targets the Justice Minister’s Family Vigilance over influence-peddling is necessary, but why do only the children of Justice Ministers receive scrutiny?
Featured Business & Economy 1 October 2020 KFTC Enforcement is Coming for Google, Netflix, and Other Online Platforms Korea Fair Trade Commission is one of the world's most active antitrust regulators.
Featured Key Players 30 September 2020 Im Eun-jeong: Maverick Woman Prosecutor is the Prosecutors’ Office Watchdog Im emerged as a leading internal critic of the Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol.
Featured Newsletter 28 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2020 North Korea murdered a South Korean civil servant who attempted to defect; Chuseok holidays are here, and BTS gave a speech at the UN.
Featured COVID-19 28 September 2020 Corona Blues: Suicide Trends Take a Turn for the Worse The pandemic is particularly affecting the mental health of young women.
Featured Conservatives 25 September 2020 Conservatives Re-brand as the People Power Party In South Korean politics, the frequency of a party’s name change reflects the extent of the trouble they are in. By that measure, South Korea’s conservatives are in deep trouble.
Featured Breaking News 24 September 2020 Breaking News Analysis: North Korea Kills and Burns the Body of a Defecting South Korean Official The barbaric killing will inevitably damage the Moon administration's inter-Korean agenda, but is unlikely to make a lasting impact in the domestic politics.
Featured Business & Economy 23 September 2020 Inequality in the Times of COVID-19 The pandemic's economic impact is landing disproportionately on the women, children and the poor.
