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.
Featured Newsletter 25 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2023 The National Assembly approved the arrest of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung.
Featured Newsletter 19 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2023 Kim Jong Un met with Vladimir Putin while prosecutors raided newsrooms. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s retrograde cabinet re-shuffle.
Featured Newsletter 11 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol met with China’s PM, while Kim Jong Un weighed a trip to Russia. Also: What the leaky presidential office says about Yoon’s grip on the presidency.
