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.
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.