Featured Conservatives 21 May 2025 Obituary: Jang Je-won, 57, a Busan Conservative Who Fell From Grace Key figure in the Yoon Suk-yeol government fell as quickly as he rose.
Featured Key Players 31 March 2025 Obituary: Jeong Su-il, 91, Middle East Expert and North Korean Spy Cover identity or no, Jeong’s scholarship was real and world-leading.
Featured Culture 28 November 2024 Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Makes History Han distinguishes herself with her intersection between historical events and bodily integrity.
Featured Key Players 31 October 2024 Key Players: Korea Freedom Federation, the Official Brownshirts of the South Korean Right The quasi-governmental civic group has long been an unofficial arm of the right-wing government.
Featured History 2 September 2024 Obituary: Kim Min-gi, 73, Champion of Indie Music Kim's music became the anthem of South Korea's democracy movement.
Featured Key Players 31 May 2024 Hong Se-hwa, 77, a Leading Progressive Thinker The socialist refugee in Paris became one of South Korea's foremost progressive thinkers.
Featured Key Players 15 April 2024 Son Myeong-sun, 96, First Lady of Kim Young-sam Unlike First Ladies, Son assiduously avoided the limelight.
Featured Conservatives 15 February 2024 Han Dong-hun Steps into the Center Stage Longtime No. 2 to Yoon Suk-yeol is now the man of the hour for South Korean conservatives.
Featured Key Players 14 September 2023 Lee Dong-gwan, Media Enforcer Chief regulator of television news is supposed to be neutral. But not Lee Dong-gwan.
Featured Key Players 6 April 2023 Kim Tae-hyo: the No-Holds-Barred Ideologue Behind Yoon Administration’s Foreign Policy The fast-rising conservative intellectual in international affairs has shown a dangerous tendency to cut corners.
Featured Society 24 February 2023 [Obituary] Lim Bo-ra, 54, Presbyterian Pastor Who Stood for LGBTQ+ Rights Lim was declared a heretic for her advocacy for sexual minority.
Featured Key Players 11 February 2023 Moon Jae-in’s New Career: Bookstore Owner Former president decides to take his bibliophilia a step further.
Featured Society 28 January 2023 Obituary: Cho Se-hui, 80, Novelist of The Dwarf The Dwarf, which described and denounced the urban poverty in South Korea's growth era, is among the most influential novels of the late 20th century.
Featured Key Players 11 January 2023 Roh Ok-hee, 64, Ulsan Superintendent Who Fought for Disadvantaged Students Roh was a labor activist who advocated for Afghan students resettled in Ulsan.
Featured Blue House 6 October 2022 The Many Troubles of First Lady Kim Geon-hee TBR's profile of the First Lady, who is emerging as a key figure of the Yoon administration.
Featured Liberals 22 September 2022 Lee Jae-myung's New Challenge The former presidential candidate is now the Democratic Party chairman. Now, here comes the hard part.
Featured Key Players 27 May 2022 Kim Ji-ha, 89, Poet for Democracy with a Complicated Legacy The writer of the defining poem for South Korea's democracy struggles made a stunning about-face later in his life.
Featured Liberals 19 May 2022 Park Ji-hyeon's First Month: Rookie Leader Gains Her Footing The 26-year-old activist is emerging as an internal critic of the liberals.
Featured Conservatives 28 April 2022 Garo Sero Institute: the Fount of Far-Right Misinformation South Korea's resurgent right takes it cues from its Youtube channel.
Featured History 20 April 2022 Hong Seong-u, 84, Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney Hong, who resigned from the bench to protest the Park Chung-hee dictatorship, was involved in nearly every major legal case in South Korea's democracy activism.
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