Featured Newsletter 17 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2023 The US wiretap scandal continued to hamstring the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. One year out from the 2024 Assembly Election, the People Power Party’s new leadership is off to a poor start.
Featured Newsletter 10 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2023 By-elections spell trouble for Yoon Suk-yeol and his People Power Party. Also: remembering Syngman Rhee’s mass murder.
Featured Newsletter 3 April 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, March 2023 National Security Advisor Kim Seong-han resigned, apparently because of a K-pop concert. The grandson of Chun Doo-hwan visited Gwangju to ask for forgiveness.
Featured Newsletter 27 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2023 The Yoon administration indicted the liberal leader Lee Jae-myung. Also: the Constitutional Court defeated the challenge against prosecution reform.
Featured Newsletter 20 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol visited Tokyo. Also: TBR’s profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Kim Tae-hyo, the driving force behind the slave laborer agreement with Japan.
Featured Newsletter 13 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2023 The People Power Party elected new leadership, while the prosecutorial investigation against Lee Jae-myung claimed another life. Also: an analysis of South Korea’s capitulation in the slave labor agreement with Japan.
Featured Newsletter 6 March 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol capitulated to Japan’s refusal to pay reparations to former slave laborers, then blamed Korea for being colonized. Also: the shaky grip of Lee Jae-myung’s leadership over the liberal opposition.
Featured Newsletter 27 February 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, February 2023 The National Assembly rejected the Yoon administration’s arrest warrant for Lee Jae-myung. Also: a look at the population crisis and dire shortages of medical services in rural areas.
Featured Newsletter 20 February 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, February 2023 For the first time in South Korean history, the Yoon Suk-yeol administration sought to arrest the sitting opposition leader.
Featured Newsletter 14 February 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, February 2023 Court decisions regarding the Daejang-dong real estate scandal and the First Lady’s stock pump-and-dump scheme stirred controversy.
Featured Newsletter 6 February 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2023 The Democratic Party moved to impeach the Interior Minister over the Itaewon Disaster. Also: a look into South Korean media’s symbiotic relationship with the conservative government.
Featured Newsletter 30 January 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2023 Soaring heating bills put pressure on the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. The People Power Party continued its internal squabbles over the chairman race, while the Democratic Party battled prosecutors.
Featured Newsletter 23 January 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol again found trouble abroad as he declared Iran “our enemy” while on a visit to the United Arab Emirates. Meanwhile, Yoon’s spy agency raided progressive groups and labor unions, claiming they were communist spies.
Featured Newsletter 16 January 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, January 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol called for South Korea’s nuclear armament. Also: the internal strife within the People Power Party for the party chair election.
Featured Newsletter 9 January 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2023 North Korean drones fly into Seoul's no-fly zone. TBR's first newsletter of 2023 is super-sized to catch up on the last two weeks of South Korean politics news.
Featured Newsletter 21 December 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2022 A year in review in TBR's final newsletter for 2022.
Featured Newsletter 13 December 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2022 The National Assembly again recommended that a cabinet minister be terminated. Also: The Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s appeals to xenophobic bigotry.
Featured Newsletter 5 December 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, November 2022 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration cracked down on the truckers’ strike. South Korea’s men’s national team made a glorious run in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Featured Newsletter 28 November 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2022 Families of the victims of the Itaewon Disaster held their first press conference as the National Assembly opens a legislative investigation.
Featured Newsletter 21 November 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2022 President Yoon Suk-yeol continued to battle the press while North Korea fired a new ICBM. Also: TBR’s look at South Korea’s “War on Drugs.”
