New leader Lee Ja-Mun promises to “unite” a divided country

Just hours after winning the South Korean Presidency, Lee J-Mung promised to “unite” in his speech to take office on Wednesday.

Lee comes to office at a time when the country is still struggling with deep divisions, which were further caused after last December last December of President Ion Suk Yol Yeol.

“I will start with the revival of the economy and the cure of people,” he told the audience of the National Assembly. “No matter who you supported in this election … I will be the president of all people.”

Lee, candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party, was elected with nearly 50% of the vote.

He accused the country’s political turmoil in “political factions without the desire to work for the lives of people.”

“I will work to unite people,” he said, adding that “he will become a president who ceases the division policy.”

But it’s not just home problems to fight. Lee also has emergency foreign challenges -such as navigating the US Alliance, Korea under the new Trump administration, balancing his relations with China and dealing with his closest neighbor North Korea.

Lee also promised to build a “flexible, pragmatic government” and announced that the emergency economic working group would be “activated immediately”.