Featured Culture 19 January 2026 Son Heung-min, Sports Star of 2025: Survey The football star is the year's most popular star.
Featured Society 8 January 2026 Can Lee Jae-myung Stem the Tide of Migration to Seoul? Local Elections are less than six months away.
Featured Society 26 December 2025 Most Support Raising Retirement Age: Data Delayed mandatory retirement closes the gap until pensioners are eligible for the national pension.
Featured Media 19 December 2025 Student Newspaper Strikes a Defiant Tone Middle school-aged editors with hard-hitting journalism.
Featured Blue House 12 December 2025 Reckoning with the Truth of the Itaewon Disaster Photo: Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (far left) attends the memorial for the Itaewon disaster with leaders of major political parties. Credit: Yonhap News. Three years since the crowd crushing event in Itaewon 이태원 that killed 159, the South Korean government is reckoning with the true cause of the disaster.
Featured Business & Economy 8 December 2025 Jeonse Begins to Fade Credit: Public demand. Jeonse 전세, the unique South Korean rental system in which the renter makes a massive deposit of up to 70% of the home value, is starting to give way to the more conventional monthly rentals 월세. In September, 65% of all new rental agreements were monthly rentals,
Featured Culture 25 November 2025 Giants Fans Despair as Twins and Eagles Battle in the Korean Series Busan team's playoff funds are untouched for nearly a decade.
Featured Society 11 November 2025 Seoul Leads in Average Wages: Data High wages were skewed toward the capital region.
Featured Society 10 November 2025 Tattoos Legalized After 33 Years Once associated with organized crime, tattoos quickly became a mainstream phenomenon.
Featured Society 27 October 2025 Seoul Vacuums Up the Youth: Data Young people come to the city as the older people leave.
Featured Business & Economy 24 October 2025 O Se-hun’s Han River Bus Flops Yet another Seoul mayor's water project fails to make a splash.
Featured Society 21 October 2025 Gyeonggi-do Province Passes Migrant Bill of Rights South Korea's first legal guarantee of the human rights of residents of non-Korean origin.
Featured Society 17 October 2025 Court Reverses a 61-Year-Old Case of Self-Defense Against Sexual Assault In 1961, Choi Mal-ja bit off her assailant's tongue in self-defense.
Featured Society 10 October 2025 Suwon Has the Drunkest Drivers: Data Overall number of drunk driving incidents has declined.
Featured Society 3 October 2025 Convenience Stores Become Frontlines of Welfare Programs People's everyday habits displayed in the stores make it an ideal entry point for social assistance.
Featured Starter Kit 2 October 2025 Starter Kit: The Long Reach of the Unification Church The cult has cultivated deep roots with the right wing politics in South Korea, Japan, and the United States.
Featured Recommendations 29 September 2025 Lee Se-dol, Go Champion, Looks Back on Defeating AI "What is the role of a pro in a game with a predetermined answer?"
