Featured Newsletter 20 January 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol traded the presidential residence for a jail cell. TBR returns (after an interrupted year-end break) with our first newsletter of 2025.
Featured Newsletter 31 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, December 2024 South Korea’s conservatives face down their potential demise.
Featured Newsletter 23 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, December 2024 Troubling new details of Yoon Suk-yeol’s coup plans came to light, including assassinations, false flag operations and a war with North Korea.
Featured Newsletter 17 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol has been impeached - but the lawfare surrounding his coup attempt is only beginning.
Featured Newsletter 9 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2024 A failed attempt at a self-coup by Yoon Suk-yeol resulted primarily in uncertainty.
Featured Newsletter 25 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2024 Lee Jae-myung fought off one criminal charge, while more allegations against First Lady Kim Geon-hee came to light.
Featured Newsletter 18 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2024 A criminal conviction leaves Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party at a crossroads.
Featured Newsletter 11 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2024 Donald Trump’s election drives Seoul closer to nuclear armament.
Featured Newsletter 5 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, October 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol drew closer to the edge of the cliff.
Featured Newsletter 28 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2024 The rift between Yoon Suk-yeol and Han Dong-hun may have become irreparable.
Featured Newsletter 21 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2024 North Korea sent its soldiers to Russia.
Featured Newsletter 15 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2024 Author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Featured Newsletter 8 October 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2024 The Office of the President sprung a navy’s worth of leaks.
Featured Newsletter 30 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2024 First Lady Kim Geon-hee found herself in yet another kind of trouble.
Featured Newsletter 17 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol faces a downcast Chuseok holiday.
Featured Newsletter 9 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol spurned the National Assembly, while his foreign policy advisor patronized Kamala Harris.
Featured Newsletter 2 September 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2024 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration took aim against Moon Jae-in.
Featured Newsletter 27 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2024 Prosecutors declined to charge the First Lady for accepting a bribe on camera. Also: Lee Jae-myung’s second term as opposition leader.
Featured Newsletter 19 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2024 Descendants of independence fighters boycotted Liberation Day events.
Featured Newsletter 13 August 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2024 The National Assembly tilted against the prosecutors.