Featured Newsletter 11 January 2021 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, January 2021 Moon Jae-in is entering his final full year of his term. The first TBR newsletter of 2021 is supersized.
Featured Newsletter 21 December 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, December 2020 TBR's last newsletter of 2020 looks back on the year and previews South Korean politics in 2021.
Featured Newsletter 14 December 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2020 The Democratic Party passed a huge slate of laws on the last day of the National Assembly regular session, while South Korea’s vaunted COVID-19 response is showing signs of wear.
Featured Newsletter 7 December 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2020 The bruising battle with Seoul's real estate market is the Moon Jae-in administration's greatest challenge.
Featured Newsletter 30 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2020 As the Biden administration gears up in the US, both North and South Korea are contemplating the next stage in the inter-Korean relations.
Featured Newsletter 23 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2020 Celebrity single mother is pushing Koreans to re-consider the traditional nuclear family.
Featured Newsletter 16 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2020 Remembering the labor movement sparked by Jeon Tae-il's death 50 years ago.
Featured Newsletter 9 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2020 The new US president-elect Joe Biden will face different Koreas since his last visit to the Peninsula.
Featured Newsletter 2 November 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2020 South Korea gears up for a potential administration change in the United States, and Lee Myung-bak goes to prison.
Featured Newsletter 26 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2020 Samsung's Lee Kun-hee is dead, while Supreme Prosecutor Yun Seok-yeol's political future may be beginning.
Featured Newsletter 20 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2020 Suga is not sweet, but Lime is definitely sour.
Featured Newsletter 12 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2020 In North Korea, a new big missile; in South Korea, renewed debate over abortion rights.
Featured Newsletter 5 October 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, September 2020 Although Chuseok is normally a political high season, Korea’s politicians and activists struggled to gain traction as the year’s biggest stage for retail politics disappeared.
Featured Newsletter 28 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2020 North Korea murdered a South Korean civil servant who attempted to defect; Chuseok holidays are here, and BTS gave a speech at the UN.
Featured Newsletter 21 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, September 2020 The Moon administration bent the curve once again, but the chuseok holidays and conservative rallies are looming.
Featured Newsletter 14 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, September 2020 As the intra-party race for the next presidency is taking shape, the new coronavirus economic relief package is becoming a flash point for Lee Nak-yeon and Lee Jae-myung.
Featured Newsletter 7 September 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, September 2020 South Korea’s conservatives are attempting to re-brand as People Power Party, but they find themselves out of power without the people's support.
Newsletter 31 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, August 2020 In the fourth week of August, South Korea’s healthcare hangs in the balance as a second wave of coronavirus infections threaten the country.
Newsletter 25 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, August 2020 In the third week of August 2020, the second wave of COVID-19 caused by conservative religious rallies is in full swing.
Newsletter 25 August 2020 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, August 2020 In the second week of August 2020, conservative rallies spark a new wave of COVID-19 outbreak while South Korea is recovering from the longest monsoon season ever.
