Only a few hours after winning the presidency of South Korea, Lee Jae-Myung promised to “unite people” in his inauguration speech on Wednesday.
Lee enters the position at a time when the country is still dealing with deep divisions, which were activated even more after the declaration of the martial law of President Yoon Suk Yeol last December.
“I will begin to relive the economy and heal people,” a National Assembly told an audience. “Regardless of who has supported this election … I will be the president of all people.”
Lee, candidate of the Democratic Liberal Party, was elected with almost 50% of the votes.
He blamed the country’s political agitation to “political factions without desire to work for people’s lives.”
“I will work to unite people,” he said, he “would become a president who ends the policy of the division.”
But they are not just national problems that you have to change. Lee also has urgent foreign challenges, such as navigating the United States Korean alliance under the new Trump administration, balance their relations with China and deal with its closest neighbor North Korea.
Lee also pledged to build a “flexible pragmatic government” and announced that an emergency economic work group would immediately activate. “