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.
Featured Newsletter 7 December 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2020 The bruising battle with Seoul's real estate market is the Moon Jae-in administration's greatest challenge.
Featured Newsletter 30 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2020 As the Biden administration gears up in the US, both North and South Korea are contemplating the next stage in the inter-Korean relations.
Featured Newsletter 23 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2020 Celebrity single mother is pushing Koreans to re-consider the traditional nuclear family.
Featured Newsletter 16 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2020 Remembering the labor movement sparked by Jeon Tae-il's death 50 years ago.
Featured Newsletter 9 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2020 The new US president-elect Joe Biden will face different Koreas since his last visit to the Peninsula.
Featured Newsletter 2 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2020 South Korea gears up for a potential administration change in the United States, and Lee Myung-bak goes to prison.
Featured Newsletter 26 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2020 Samsung's Lee Kun-hee is dead, while Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol's political future may be beginning.
Featured Newsletter 20 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2020 Suga is not sweet, but Lime is definitely sour.
Featured Newsletter 12 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2020 In North Korea, a new big missile; in South Korea, renewed debate over abortion rights.
Featured Newsletter 5 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, September 2020 Although Chuseok is normally a political high season, Korea’s politicians and activists struggled to gain traction as the year’s biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
