Featured Elections 1 June 2023 Assembly Election: Search for Third Party Success Continues Many have tried and failed to harness the voters who tuned out politics. Can this time be different?
Featured Starter Kit 25 May 2023 Starter Kit: The All-Important Party Slate A primer on a political party's most important function.
Featured Blue House 15 May 2023 "Double Special Prosecution" Against the First Lady, Conservatives on the Legislative "Fast Track" Special prosecution investigation will likely occur in the run-up to the 2024 Assembly Election.
Featured Elections 26 April 2023 Democratic Party Leads Early in the 2024 Assembly Election The liberal opposition leads in every region except pockets of conservative strongholds.
Featured Liberals 23 March 2023 With the Arrest Warrant Vote, Lee Jae-myung Faces a Crossroads Unprecedented attempt to arrest the liberal leader exposed the cracks in the ranks.
Featured National Assembly 8 February 2023 Legislative Investigation of the Itaewon Disaster Recommends Charges for Perjury for Yoon Administration Officials The ruling People Power Party boycotted the legislative report.
Featured National Assembly 23 September 2021 Latest Round of Major Legislation by the National Assembly Don't sleep on the legislature, even during the presidential election season.
Featured Liberals 2 July 2021 Democratic Party Demands 12 of Its Lawmakers Suspected of Real Estate Speculation to Leave the Party Conservatives initially resisted investigation, but is bowing to the public pressure.
Featured Liberals 23 June 2021 Justice Party’s Surprising Rightward Lurch The erstwhile progressive party is now the left flank of the conservatives.
Featured Starter Kit 24 February 2021 Starter Kit: a Brief History of Primaries in South Korea The inter-party election to select the candidates who would run in the final election is a recent feature in Korean politics, and is localized in a peculiar way.
Featured National Assembly 19 February 2021 Justice Party in Disarray The minor leftist party is mired in sexual harassment and illegal termination scandals.
Featured National Assembly 28 December 2020 "The Foundation of Our Society is Changing": Dems Flex Their Legislative Supermajority We summarize the top 20 most important laws out of the 130+ passed in the 2020 legislative session.
Featured Conservatives 13 November 2020 Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol Eyes Politics Yun is already a leader among potential conservatives for the next presidential candidate.
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.
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.
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.
