Featured Newsletter 7 February 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2022 The presidential candidates held their first televised debate. Also: can Yun Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-su pull off a unified candidacy?
Featured Newsletter 31 January 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2022 North Korea tested a long range missile while the presidential race entered the critical Lunar New Year period.
Featured Newsletter 24 January 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2022 Omicron hits South Korea, complicating the politics of the country's pandemic response.
Featured Newsletter 17 January 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, January 2022 Yun Seok-yeol's presidential campaign rebounds by appealing to the incel demographic. South Korea goes over the "population cliff."
Featured Newsletter 10 January 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2022 Catch up with all the action in the presidential campaign, with Lee Jae-myung rising and Yun Seok-yeol sinking.
Featured Newsletter 20 December 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, December 2021 TBR's last newsletter of the year looks back on 2021.
Featured Newsletter 13 December 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2021 A look at the political risk posed by the presidential candidates' spouses.
Featured Newsletter 6 December 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2021 People Power Party chairman Lee Jun-seok decides to take a day off. China supported the end of war declaration for the Korean War.
Featured Newsletter 29 November 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2021 Yun Seok-yeol's convention effect fades as Lee Jae-myung gains. Remembering the dark legacy of dictator Chun Doo-hwan.
Featured Newsletter 23 November 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2021 Mass murderer Chun Doo-hwan died. Lee Jae-myung tilts against the Finance Ministry.
Featured Newsletter 15 November 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2021 The two presidential nominees assembled their foreign policy team and welcomed visiting dignitaries.
Featured Newsletter 8 November 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2021 The People Power Party nominated Yun Seok-yeol as its candidate, setting up the final round against Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung.
Featured Newsletter 1 November 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2021 Roh Tae-woo dies on the same day Park Chung-hee died. TBR profile of Yun Seok-yeol, the executioner of presidents.
Featured Newsletter 25 October 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2021 South Korea takes a major step toward space exploration. Lee Jae-myung fielded questions from the National Assembly on the Daejang-dong real estate scandal.
Featured Newsletter 18 October 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2021 TBR profiles Sim Sang-jeong, presidential candidate for the Justice Party.
Featured Newsletter 11 October 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2021 Lee Jae-myung clinched the Democratic Party presidential nomination, while a brewing real estate scandal is looming.
Featured Newsletter 4 October 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, September 2021 TBR profiles Democratic presidential frontrunner Lee Jae-myung.
Featured Newsletter 27 September 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2021 Moon Jae-in and BTS addressed the United Nations. North Korea is suddenly interested in ending the Korean War - why?
Featured Newsletter 20 September 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2021 The two Koreas conduct dueling missile launches as South Korea contemplates whether to go nuclear.
Featured Newsletter 13 September 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2021 Lee Jae-myung continues to steamroll through the Democratic primaries. What young Korean women want in politics, and TBR's profile of Yu Seung-min.