{"id":72095,"date":"2025-06-04T01:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/03\/lee-jae-myung-child-labourer-to-leader-deeply-scarred-south-korea"},"modified":"2025-06-04T01:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:55:25","slug":"lee-jae-myung-from-child-labourer-to-leader-of-deeply-scarred-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72095","title":{"rendered":"Lee Jae-myung: from child labourer to leader of deeply scarred South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New president faces formidable challenges that could plunge his term into crisis before it has even begun<\/p>\n<p>Lee Jae-myung will need to draw on his considerable survival instincts as he attempts to steer South Korea out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/02\/as-south-korea-heads-to-the-polls-can-lee-jae-myung-bring-the-country-back-from-the-brink\">political morass of the past six months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal candidate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/03\/lee-jae-myung-elected-as-south-korean-president-exit-polls-say\">who on Tuesday became the country\u2019s president at the third attempt<\/a> after defeating his conservative rival, Kim Moon-soo, has promised to govern for all South Koreans \u2013 and for good reason. After a swift transfer of power that will take him to the presidential Blue House on Wednesday, Lee will inherit a deeply scarred country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/03\/lee-jae-myung-child-labourer-to-leader-deeply-scarred-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New president faces formidable challenges that could plunge his term into crisis before it has even begunLee Jae-myung will need to draw on his considerable survival instincts as he attempts to steer South Korea out of the political morass of the past &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72095\/revisions\/72105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}