Featured Newsletter 22 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol and the Office of the President fell into a state of anomie.
Featured Newsletter 15 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol and the People Power Party suffered a crushing defeat in the General Election.
Featured Newsletter 8 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2024 Voters turned out at historic levels for early voting of the April 10 General Election. Also: the Sewol Ferry Disaster, ten years on.
Featured Newsletter 1 April 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2024 Voting began for the General Election. Also: a look at each party’s proportional representation slate.
Featured Newsletter 25 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2024 The People Power Party watched its support plummet in the Seoul metropolitan area. The General Election is 16 days away.
Featured Newsletter 18 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2024 Conflicts between the ruling People Power Party and the Office of the President began to spill out into the open. The General Election is 23 days away.
Featured Newsletter 11 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2024 The April 10 General Election is 29 days away.
Featured Newsletter 7 March 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, February 2024 The doctors’ strike continued while Cho Kuk’s new party made noise.
Featured Newsletter 26 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, February 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol took steps to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, while the Democratic Party suddenly ran into trouble in the General Election campaign.
Featured Newsletter 19 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, February 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol canceled a planned state visit, while doctors threatened to strike.
Featured Newsletter 13 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, February 2024 Minor third parties merged while Yoon Suk-yeol sat for a pre-taped New Year’s interview.
Featured Newsletter 5 February 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, January 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol exercises another veto. The National Assembly wrangled over how to elect its proportional representation members.
Featured Newsletter 30 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, January 2024 Yet another legislator was assaulted while Yoon Suk-yeol and Han Dong-hun attempt to cover up their feud.
Featured Newsletter 22 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2024 Assembly Member was gagged and forcibly removed for criticizing the president.
Featured Newsletter 15 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, January 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol began mulling for a veto against the law mandating special investigation for the Itaewon Disaster. Also: Han Dong-hun, the man of the hour.
Featured Newsletter 8 January 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2024 Lee Jae-myung barely survived a knife attack, while Yoon Suk-yeol vetoed a special prosecutor investigation into his wife.
Featured Newsletter 20 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2023 In the last newsletter of 2023, a look back at Yoon Suk-yeol's year of frustration.
Featured Newsletter 11 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2023 The scramble for the April 2024 General Election began in earnest.
Featured Newsletter 4 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, November 2023 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s bid for the 2030 World Expo ended in an embarrassing flop. Also: a new movie about the military coup of Chun Doo-hwan is a box-office smash.
Featured Newsletter 27 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2023 North Korea repudiated the critical September 19 Inter-Korean Military Agreement. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s trouser troubles.