Featured Newsletter 14 November 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2022 President Yoon Suk-yeol toured Southeast Asia while sidelining the critical press.
Featured Newsletter 7 November 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2022 North Korea fired a barrage of missiles and scrambled 180 fighter jets, raising military tensions to new heights. Also: a look at the international dimensions of the Itaewon disaster.
Featured Newsletter 31 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2022 South Korea suffered one of the worst public safety lapses in its history as Halloween festivities in Itaewon led to 155 deaths.
Featured Newsletter 24 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2022 Prosecutors raided the main opposition party headquarters for the first time since the dictatorship era, and arrested two Moon Jae-in administration officials. Also: an awful death at South Korea’s largest bakery chain, and the gratuitous Legoland credit crisis.
Featured Newsletter 17 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2022 North Korea continued to escalate tensions as South Korea debated having its own nuclear weapons. Also: the partisan visions of South Korea's grand strategy.
Featured Newsletter 11 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2022 North Korea tested a long range missile over Japan while a South Korean missile drill almost caused a disaster. Also: TBR’s starter kit on South Korea’s media landscape.
Featured Newsletter 3 October 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol continued to attempt to gaslight critics about his embarrassing hot mic moment in New York, and attacked the media outlets that did not play along.
Featured Newsletter 26 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol goes a disastrous tour of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. A look at the new landscape of South Korean politics.
Featured Newsletter 19 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol welcomed China’s top legislator, while the People Power Party attempted to whitewash a coup attempt. Also: a look at the maelstrom of controversy around the First Lady.
Featured Newsletter 12 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2022 South Korea celebrated Chuseok amid soaring inflation that is dampening the spirit of the harvest season. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s quiet purge of the presidential office.
Featured Newsletter 5 September 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, August 2022 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration proposed its first budget that cut welfare programs. Also: a look at what lies ahead for Lee Jae-myung, now chairman of the Democratic Party.
Featured Newsletter 29 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2022 Lee Jae-myung is the new leader of the Democratic Party, while the former leader of the People Power Party successfully sued his party. Also: sleepwalking into a COVID disaster.
Featured Newsletter 22 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol celebrated Liberation Day and his 100th day in office in the face of dismal approval ratings.
Featured Newsletter 15 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2022 Flash flood claimed more than a dozen lives and displaced thousands while President Yoon Suk-yeol was stuck at home.
Featured Newsletter 8 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, August 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol snubs Nancy Pelosi while his Education Minister resigned just 34 days after appointment.
Featured Newsletter 2 August 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, July 2022 People Power Party falls into disarray. Massive South Korean arms sale to Poland. And Lee Jun-seok in the wilderness.
Featured Newsletter 25 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, July 2022 Police colonels protest the new Bureau of Police. A look into the Yoon administration's "Personnel Disaster".
Featured Newsletter 19 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, July 2022 Seoul Queer Parade resumes in-person festivities. The Yoon administration's desperate red-baiting.
Featured Newsletter 11 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, July 2022 Considering Abe Shinzo's legacy with Korea. Also: Lee Jun-seok suspended, and spy agency attacks its former chiefs.
Featured Newsletter 4 July 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, June 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol attended the NATO summit, where he faced a steep learning curve.
