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Only a few hours after winning the South Korean presidency, Lee Jae-Myung is committed to “uniting the people” in his inauguration speech on Wednesday.
Lee comes into office at a time when the country is still struggling with deep divisions, which were launched after the Declaration of the Act on the Act on President Yoon Suk Yeol last December.
“I will start by rekindling the economy and healing people,” he told an audience of the National Assembly. “No matter who you supported during this election … I will be the president of all the people.”
Lee, a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party, was elected with almost 50% of the votes.
He blamed the country’s political troubles on “political factions without desire to work for the life of the people”.
“I’m going to work to unite people,” he said, adding that he would “become a president who ends the division policy”.
But it is not only the domestic problems he faces. Lee also has urgent foreign challenges – such as the navigation of the American -Korea alliance under the new Trump administration, balancing its relations with China and dealing with its neighbor closest to North Korea.
Lee also undertook to build a “flexible and pragmatic government” and announced that an emergency economic working group would be “activated immediately”.
