Featured Newsletter 19 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2021 Another Moon Jae-in administration bureaucrats joined the opposition. South Korea battled a sweltering heat wave and a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Featured Newsletter 12 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2021 The Democratic Party made its first cut for the presidential primaries. Conservatives take aim at the Ministry of Gender Equality.
Featured Newsletter 5 July 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, June 2021 The proposed law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation may have a better chance this time. Presidential race kicks off in earnest.
Featured Newsletter 28 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2021 Former Supreme Prosecutor, the leading conservative presidential candidate, is coming under increasing scrutiny as he makes an uneven transition toward politics.
Newsletter 21 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2021 As the pandemic's end nears, Moon Jae-in tours Europe.
Featured Newsletter 14 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2021 Moon Jae-in attends the G7 summit. Revisiting the Cho Kuk affair that rocked South Korean politics in 2019.
Featured Newsletter 7 June 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, June 2021 Seoul hosts a major climate summit and commits to a more stringent carbon neutrality goals. A look into North Korea's new path.
Featured Newsletter 31 May 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, May 2021 Looking back on the cultural impact of Roh Moo-hyun, and the incel leader aiming to be the next conservative party leader.
Featured Newsletter 24 May 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, May 2021 Moon Jae-in and Joe Biden open a new chapter of ROK-US alliance; remembering the Gwangju Democracy Movement.
Featured Newsletter 17 May 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2021 The major parties are gearing up for the presidential election, now less than 300 days away.
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.
