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.
Featured Newsletter 5 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, January 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol exercises another veto. The National Assembly wrangled over how to elect its proportional representation members.
Featured Newsletter 30 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2024 Yet another legislator was assaulted while Yoon Suk-yeol and Han Dong-hun attempt to cover up their feud.
Featured Newsletter 22 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2024 Assembly Member was gagged and forcibly removed for criticizing the president.
Featured Newsletter 15 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, January 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol began mulling for a veto against the law mandating special investigation for the Itaewon Disaster. Also: Han Dong-hun, the man of the hour.
Featured Newsletter 8 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2024 Lee Jae-myung barely survived a knife attack, while Yoon Suk-yeol vetoed a special prosecutor investigation into his wife.
Featured Newsletter 20 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2023 In the last newsletter of 2023, a look back at Yoon Suk-yeol's year of frustration.
Featured Newsletter 11 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2023 The scramble for the April 2024 General Election began in earnest.
Featured Newsletter 4 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, November 2023 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s bid for the 2030 World Expo ended in an embarrassing flop. Also: a new movie about the military coup of Chun Doo-hwan is a box-office smash.
Featured Newsletter 27 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2023 North Korea repudiated the critical September 19 Inter-Korean Military Agreement. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s trouser troubles.
Featured Newsletter 20 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2023 KBS sacked numerous journalists after the Yoon Suk-yeol administration appointed a new head. Also: In Yo-han’s tug-of-war with the People Power Party.
Featured Newsletter 13 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2023 The National Assembly approved a major expansion of labor rights as a presidential veto loomed. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s penchant for international jaunts.
Featured Newsletter 6 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2023 The People Power Party geared up for the General Election with a raft of outlandish and off-the-cuff pledges.
Featured Newsletter 31 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol honored the memory of a dead dictator, but not the people who died in the Itaewon Disaster. Also: media suppression intensifies.
Featured Newsletter 23 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol visited Saudi Arabia without his Secretary of Protocol. Also: The Itaewon Disaster, one year later.
Featured Newsletter 16 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol administration faced the fallout from a landslide loss in the Gangseo-gu District by-election. Also: a primer on South Korea and Israel.
Featured Newsletter 9 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2023 The National Assembly rejected the Chief Justice nomination for the first time in 35 years. Also: the implications of a Gangseo-gu District by-election.
Featured Newsletter 3 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2023 Lee Jae-myung avoided arrest while Yoon Suk-yeol held a military parade. South Korea celebrated Chuseok.
