Featured Newsletter 10 May 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2021 The slow news week could have been an opportunity to elevate the discourse, but South Korea's media chose sensationalism instead.
Featured Newsletter 3 May 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2021 Lee Kun-hee donates his art collection. Our overview of the people who run the Blue House.
Featured Newsletter 26 April 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2021 Youn Yuh-jung becomes the first Korean actor to win an Oscar. The rise of misogyny as a political ideology.
Featured Newsletter 19 April 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2021 Moon Jae-in lines up what is likely to be his last cabinet. TBR's Starter Kit on South Korea's judicial system.
Featured Newsletter 12 April 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2021 Conservatives sweep the Seoul/Busan mayoral by-elections. Also, our profile of the old new Seoul mayor O Se-hun.
Featured Newsletter 5 April 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, March 2021 Seoul/Busan mayoral by-elections are two days away. An overview of ROK-Myanmar relations.
Featured Newsletter 29 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2021 A look at the invisible hands of South Korean politics. Seoul and Busan mayoral elections are nine days away.
Featured Newsletter 22 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2021 High-ranking Biden administration officials visited Seoul and left confusion in their wake. TBR presents a political overview of Busan, South Korea’s prosperous second city.
Featured Newsletter 15 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2021 The Seoul mayoral election is in turmoil with the latest real estate scandal. The presidential election is less than one year away.
Featured Newsletter 8 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2021 The major parties set their tickets for the Seoul and Busan mayor by-elections, now just one month away. Also, a look at how Moon Jae-in has fared compared to other presidents at the same point in their terms, and remembering the pioneer of transgender rights in military.
Featured Newsletter 1 March 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, February 2021 South Korean politicos debated the merits of a universal basic income, while the Justice Party started losing its bearings.
Featured Newsletter 22 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, February 2021 Politics are threatening to derail the COVID-19 vaccination program, and what young liberal voters want.
Featured Newsletter 16 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, February 2021 Happy Lunar New Year! Our look at Seoul's infrastructure projects, and the profile of Moon Chung-in.
Featured Newsletter 8 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2021 Conservatives' obsession with nuclear power, and the wild world of South Korean style primary elections.
Featured Newsletter 1 February 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2021 Liberals suddenly started making headway in the Busan mayoral election with their promise for a new international airport that is dividing the conservatives. TBR examines the new tech underclass: the overworked logistics workers who are exposed to death and injury.
Featured Newsletter 25 January 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2021 The Democratic field for the next president is shifted in favor of Lee Jae-myung although a third man may be waiting in the wings.
Featured Newsletter 18 January 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, January 2021 Get to know South Korea's most important political pundit.
Featured Newsletter 11 January 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2021 Moon Jae-in is entering his final full year of his term. The first TBR newsletter of 2021 is supersized.
Featured Newsletter 21 December 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, December 2020 TBR's last newsletter of 2020 looks back on the year and previews South Korean politics in 2021.
Featured Newsletter 14 December 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2020 The Democratic Party passed a huge slate of laws on the last day of the National Assembly regular session, while South Korea’s vaunted COVID-19 response is showing signs of wear.
