Featured Newsletter 25 June 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2024 Vladimir Putin visited Kim Jong Un, spelling an end to South Korea’s Northern Diplomacy.
Featured Newsletter 18 June 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2024 The United States stepped in to de-escalate tensions between the two Koreas that it had stoked.
Featured Newsletter 10 June 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, June 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol claimed to have found oil under the sea, while North Korea sent more poop balloons over the DMZ.
Featured Newsletter 3 June 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, May 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol made history on vetoes, while North Korea floated excrement across the DMZ.
Featured Newsletter 27 May 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, May 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol vetoed the bill authorizing a special investigation into the death of a marine corporal, as further evidence of presidential interference came to light. Also: Moon Jae-in publishes a memoir on foreign policy.
Featured Newsletter 20 May 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, May 2024 The National Assembly elected a new Speaker, while Yoon Suk-yeol purged the Public Prosecutors’ Office.
Featured Newsletter 13 May 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol held his second-ever press conference. Also: Yoon’s prosecutors find nothing but frustration.
Featured Newsletter 6 May 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2024 The judiciary dealt a blow to the Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s plan to increase the number of medical students.
Featured Newsletter 29 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol met with Lee Jae-myung for the first time in his presidency. And: The investigation threatening the Yoon administration.
Featured Newsletter 22 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol and the Office of the President fell into a state of anomie.
Featured Newsletter 15 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol and the People Power Party suffered a crushing defeat in the General Election.
Featured Newsletter 8 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2024 Voters turned out at historic levels for early voting of the April 10 General Election. Also: the Sewol Ferry Disaster, ten years on.
Featured Newsletter 1 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2024 Voting began for the General Election. Also: a look at each party’s proportional representation slate.
Featured Newsletter 25 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2024 The People Power Party watched its support plummet in the Seoul metropolitan area. The General Election is 16 days away.
Featured Newsletter 18 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2024 Conflicts between the ruling People Power Party and the Office of the President began to spill out into the open. The General Election is 23 days away.
Featured Newsletter 11 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2024 The April 10 General Election is 29 days away.
Featured Newsletter 7 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, February 2024 The doctors’ strike continued while Cho Kuk’s new party made noise.
Featured Newsletter 26 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, February 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol took steps to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, while the Democratic Party suddenly ran into trouble in the General Election campaign.
Featured Newsletter 19 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, February 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol canceled a planned state visit, while doctors threatened to strike.
Featured Newsletter 13 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2024 Minor third parties merged while Yoon Suk-yeol sat for a pre-taped New Year’s interview.