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.
Featured Newsletter 27 June 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, June 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol administration purged the spy agency while proposing to re-install a dictatorship era bureau to control the police.
Featured Newsletter 20 June 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, June 2022 The Yoon administration announced its economic policies. The Blue House move, one month later.
Featured Newsletter 13 June 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, June 2022 Truckers' strike in response to the soaring fuel price threatens the economy. The looming real estate disaster in Dunchon-dong development.
Featured Newsletter 6 June 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, June 2022 Our breakdown of the Local Elections in which the conservatives won by a landslide.
Featured Newsletter 30 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, May 2022 Early voting began for the Local Elections. Yoon Suk-yeol has trouble with the international media.
Featured Newsletter 23 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol met with Joe Biden. TBR presents a viewer's guide for the Local Elections.
Featured Newsletter 16 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol is inaugurated as the 20th president of the Republic of Korea. Then he went shopping.