Simply hours after profitable the South Korean presidency, Lee Jae-myung pledged to “unite the individuals” in his inauguration speech on Wednesday.
Lee enters workplace at a time when the nation remains to be grappling with deep divisions, which had been additional triggered after President Yoon Suk Yeol’s shock martial regulation declaration final December.
“I’ll begin with reviving the economic system and therapeutic the individuals,” he informed an viewers a the Nationwide Meeting. “No matter who you supported on this election… I would be the president of all of the individuals.”
Lee, a candidate of the liberal Democratic Celebration, was elected with practically 50% of the vote.
He blamed the nation’s political turmoil on “political factions with no want to work for the lives of the individuals”.
“I’ll work to unite the individuals,” he mentioned, including that he would “develop into a president who ends the politics of division.”
Nevertheless it’s not simply home points he has to take care of. Lee has pressing overseas challenges as nicely – corresponding to navigating the US-Korea alliance beneath the brand new Trump administration, balancing its relations with China and coping with its closest neighbour North Korea.
Lee additionally pledged to construct a “versatile, pragmatic authorities” and introduced that an emergency financial process power can be “activated instantly”.
