I recently found Rest of World and I like it, they seem to be high quality: https://restofworld.org/

What a weird name: "rest of the world".

I live in the "rest of the world" and never thought of myself like that.

Two clicks away:

    About our name

    Why “Rest of World”? It’s a corporate catchall term used in the West to designate “everyone else.” Companies use it to lump together people and markets outside wealthy Western countries. We like the term because it encapsulates the problems we fight head-on: a casual disregard for billions of people, and a Western-centric worldview that leaves an unthinkable number of insights, opportunities, and nuances out of the global conversation.

Don’t you think “there’s my county $MY_COUNTRY, and then there’s the rest of the world” ? I figured every one did, I don’t really consider anyone a “citizen of the world”

I'm not sure whether it is as simple as every country being the same in this regard. On the average, I'd assume the average citizen of a non-US country to be more informed about the US political landscape, than vice versa.

You are not alone. Even South Koreans are clueless.

I read reuters on a regular basis, and I was surprised

i look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events once a day, it gives a good overview of the world news

For Korea specifically, I listen to KBS world radio news. Over the last few weeks I’ve seen an increasing number of stories about interparty scuffles and investigations of certain politicians.

I don't read it regularly, but The Economist is a great source that covers pretty much every corner of the world. In fact I don't subscribe because its just a firehose, and I just can't keep up with the internal squabbling of parties all over the world.

I went to check to see if its available online- even via my local library, but it seems The Economist was pulled from major online sites around 2023 due to their pricing model. So I can't verify if this was covered. That said, what information has trickled out points to this being a big surprise, so there may not have been storm clouds brewing that could have foretold this.

Edit: Got past the paywall on the site and did a search and there appears to be no articles published that would have predicted an issue like this: https://www.economist.com/search?q=south+korea&sort=date&pag...

Related: 'The Economist' To Halt Production For Month To Let Readers Catch Up

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I can't imagine reading every issue cover to cover unless it's really relevant to your work.

I’ve been reading most articles in The Economist every week for 20 years. It’s not really relevant to my work. I don’t read every article thoroughly, though. There are some I don’t mind skimming, some I usually skip that are speculation about the future, and also when you’re up to date sometimes articles contain redundant info to bring relative newcomers up to speed.

It certainly has issues in the depth of its coverage, the simplistic endings of its articles, occasional culture war snipes, and lots of other stuff. It’s far from perfect. But for my money it’s still the best general world news source out there, and I check most of them out regularly. I have so many conversations with coworkers and people I meet about their home countries that I just couldn’t without reading The Economist.

I use Reuters to keep a non-US eye on the news. I didn't see this coming from there either, though...

I don't think this particular issue was covered in advance, but The World Next Week is an excellent program

https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/world-next-week