Featured Newsletter 4 September 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, August 2023 The Military Academy waded into a controversy by attempting to remove statutes of independence fighters from its campus. Also: the centennial of the Kanto Massacre.
Featured Newsletter 29 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2023 Japan began releasing radioactive wastewater from Fukushima. Also: Lee Dong-gwan, media enforcer.
Featured Newsletter 22 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol met with Joe Biden and Kishida Fumio at Camp David. Also: Climate change comes for South Korea.
Featured Newsletter 14 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2023 The embarrassing mismanagement of the World Scout Jamboree ended with one of the most disgraceful K-pop concerts in history.
Featured Newsletter 7 August 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2023 utter mismanagement of the World Scout Jamboree shut down the event early as thousands of scouts suffered from heat stroke and bug bites.
Featured Newsletter 31 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, July 2023 The Constitutional Court dismissed the impeachment of the Interior Minister over the Itaewon Disaster. Also: a reflection on the 70th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement.
Featured Newsletter 25 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, July 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol’s mother-in-law was sentenced to one year in prison. Also: flooding deaths show why some politicians are more dangerous than others.
Featured Newsletter 17 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol visited Ukraine, while back in South Korea 54 died or went missing in nationwide flash floods. Also: the media circus of North Korean defectors.
Featured Newsletter 10 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2023 First Lady Kim Geon-hee was mired in a real estate scandal involving a new planned highway. Also: the return of the Lee Myung-bak era.
Featured Newsletter 3 July 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol called liberals “anti-state forces” while appointing a new Unification Minister. Also: the state of South Korea’s LGBTQ+ movement.
Featured Newsletter 26 June 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2023 President Yoon Suk-yeol visited Paris and Hanoi while Pride Parades faced government interference. Also: TBR’s viewer’s guide for the 2024 Assembly Election, now just nine months away.
Featured Newsletter 19 June 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2023 The planned release of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant added to pressures on the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, which tinkered with the all-important college entrance exam.
Featured Newsletter 12 June 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, June 2023 The Yoon administration summoned the Chinese ambassador over a meeting with the opposition leader. Also: an extraordinary threat by Yoon Suk-yeol subverts judicial independence.
Featured Newsletter 5 June 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, May 2023 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration sparked outrage by clubbing a striking labor unionist. Also: can immigrant nannies solve South Korea’s low birth rate?
Featured Newsletter 30 May 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, May 2023 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration raided the home and office of a MBC News journalist who embarrassed the president. Also: why are South Korean nurses protesting?
Featured Newsletter 22 May 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, May 2023 Nationwide protests against the Yoon Suk-yeol administration intensified, peaking with a nurses’ strike. Also: Korean adoptees return home to confront the legacy of international baby-selling.
Featured Newsletter 15 May 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2023 South Korea declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also: a look at the emerging third-party bids in the 2024 Assembly Elections.
Featured Newsletter 8 May 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2023 Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio visited Seoul, while President Yoon Suk-yeol had a muted celebration of his first year in office. Also: an introduction to slate-setting, the most important function of a South Korean political party.
Featured Newsletter 1 May 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol made a state visit to the United States, while the liberal opposition set a special prosecution investigation in motion.
Featured Newsletter 24 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol suggested supplying weapons to Ukraine in advance of his state visit to Washington DC - for which the president is brushing up on his English.
