Key Players 3 September 2020 Jeon Gwang-hun: the Firebrand Conservative Pastor who Went (Literally) Viral On the streets of Seoul, Pastor Jeon Gwang-hun is the de facto conservative leader.
Healthcare 2 September 2020 Doctors Strike Against More Doctors Help not wanted, even amid the pandemic.
Trivia 1 September 2020 The President's Summer Reading The books the president reads often become bestsellers, as the public seeks to gauge the mind of their leader.
Newsletter 31 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2020 In the fourth week of August, South Korea’s healthcare hangs in the balance as a second wave of coronavirus infections threaten the country.
Newsletter 25 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2020 In the third week of August 2020, the second wave of COVID-19 caused by conservative religious rallies is in full swing.
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Japan's Trade War on South Korea, One Year Later Mostly a swing and a miss.
Newsletter 25 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2020 In the second week of August 2020, conservative rallies spark a new wave of COVID-19 outbreak while South Korea is recovering from the longest monsoon season ever.
Featured Announcement 25 August 2020 Introducing TBR The Blue Roof's mission is to cover the politics of one of the most important countries in the world's most important region.
Key Players 25 August 2020 Style and Substance: Two Freshman Legislators Make a Splash Two female legislators, both first-term Assembly Members of minor parties born in the 1990s, are making waves.
Recommendations 25 August 2020 Elder Poverty and Subsistence-Labor South Korea's elder poverty is the country's least discussed problem. A new book makes it a little less so.
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Make Sejong Great Again: Democratic Party Tries Capital Relocation One More Time The Constitutional Court of Korea 헌법재판소 held in 2006 that Korea’s capital cannot be relocated absent a constitutional amendment. 14 years later, the Democratic Party 민주당 is trying again.
Featured Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Defusing the South Korea’s Jeonse Time Bomb South Korea’s unique method of housing lease that acts as an unregulated capital market.
Liberals 25 August 2020 Procedural Blitzkrieg: Democrats Play Hardball Democratic Majority Leader Kim Tae-nyeon 김태년 “owned July’s National Assembly,” according to conservatives. He would take it as a compliment.
National Security 25 August 2020 The Other Korean Missiles Program: South Korea’s Solid Fuel Rockets North Korea’s missiles program makes the news, but the missiles program of South Korea is at least as equally important.
Recommendations 25 August 2020 How South Korean Shipping Got Its Groove Back How the government resuscitated the shipping business from the disastrous Hanjin bankruptcy
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 The Stonks Tax: New Tax for Profit from Stock and Crypto Trading Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced the 2020 amendments for the Tax Act that in part is aimed at taxing the gains from stock and cryptocurrency trading.
Key Players 23 August 2020 Kim Hyun-chong: Elite Trade Negotiator is Now a NatSec Architect Deputy National Security Advisor Kim Hyun-chong is establishing himself as one of the most important voices in the Moon administration’s policies for national security and foreign policy.
Newsletter 23 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2020 In the first week of August 2020, heads are rolling among the senior staff of the Blue House as the government considers the capital relocation once again.
Newsletter 18 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, July 2020 In the fifth week of July 2020, South Korea took a big step forward in its own missiles program and the Democratic Party played procedural hardball to protect renters.
