Featured Bureaucracy 17 March 2023 Tenfold Increase in Raid Warrants over 20 Years: Data The tenfold increase in raids stands in stark contrast to the number of arrest warrants, which declined by more than 80% over the same time period.
Featured Liberals 9 March 2023 Prosecutors' Absurd Charges Against Lee Jae-myung The argument that political gains amount to bribery makes a mockery of representative democracy.
Featured Bureaucracy 14 November 2022 Spy Agency Contradicts Yoon Administration's Claim, Says Slain South Korean Civilian was Attempting to Defect into North Korea Claim by the National Intelligence Service directly undermines the Yoon administration's allegations against its predecessor.
Featured Bureaucracy 24 October 2022 Interior Ministry Formally Proposes Abolition of the Gender Equality Ministry Abolition of the Gender Equality Ministry was a major campaign promise of Yoon Suk-yeol, who rode the tide of aggressive misogyny.
Featured COVID-19 15 September 2022 Sleepwalking into a COVID Public Health Disaster The Yoon administration still has no Health Minister, and the existing personnel are not up to the task.
Featured Blue House 11 August 2022 Yoon Administration's 'Personnel Disaster' Trouble with appointments is a microcosm of Yoon Suk-yeol's political weakness.
Featured Bureaucracy 8 August 2022 Police Colonels Protest the Revival of Dictatorship Era Police Bureau More of the half of the frontline chiefs expressed opposition to the Interior Ministry's Bureau of Police.
Featured Bureaucracy 20 July 2022 Justice Ministry Replaces Hundreds of High-Ranking Prosecutors Without a Supreme Prosecutor The Yoon administration skipped the mandatory consultation with the Supreme Prosecutor by not appointing one.
Featured Bureaucracy 11 July 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol Purges Spy Agency and Re-introduces Dictatorship Era Police Bureau The move is in the latest step in the administration to firm its hold over the policing and surveillance organs.
Featured Bureaucracy 4 July 2022 Yoon Appoints Top Tax Official Without Legislative Hearing This is the first time in South Korean history in which a head of a "Four Institutes of Power" was appointed with a legislative hearing.
Featured Bureaucracy 17 June 2022 Justice Ministry Establishes a New Bureau to Vet Political Appointees Opposition criticized it as a standing body of surveillance over high ranking officials.
Featured Conservatives 10 June 2022 "MeToo" Prosecutor Resigns in Protest from Sex Crimes Task Force Most of the task force resigned in solidarity.
Featured Liberals 12 May 2022 Prosecution Reform: the Democrats' Parting Shot The final bill of the Moon Jae-in administration finalized a longtime liberal project.
Featured Bureaucracy 19 November 2020 Prosecutors vs Police: Major Reform in Criminal Investigation New presidential decree sharply curtails the prosecutors' investigative authority.