{"id":72108,"date":"2025-06-04T18:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/how-will-south-korea-president-lee-jae-myung-engage-trump-white-house"},"modified":"2025-06-04T18:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:18:01","slug":"how-will-south-koreas-new-president-engage-with-trumps-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72108","title":{"rendered":"How will South Korea\u2019s new president engage with Trump\u2019s White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Jae-myung must tackle US leader\u2019s trade war as he attempts to revive Asia\u2019s fourth biggest economy<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, the then South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/south-korean-president-sings-american-pie-at-state-dinner-with-biden\">serenaded Joe Biden<\/a> in the White House with a rendition of American Pie. The foundations of Washington\u2019s ties with Seoul, one of its most important allies in the Asia-Pacific, appeared as firm as Yoon\u2019s more-than-passable crooning.<\/p>\n<p>As he prepares to replace the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/07\/south-korean-president-apologises-for-martial-law-attempt-as-impeachment-vote-looms\">now-disgraced Yoon<\/a>, South Korea\u2019s new leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/03\/lee-jae-myung-child-labourer-to-leader-deeply-scarred-south-korea\">Lee Jae-myung<\/a>, will have to strike a very different note with Biden\u2019s successor in the White House.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/how-will-south-korea-president-lee-jae-myung-engage-trump-white-house\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Jae-myung must tackle US leader\u2019s trade war as he attempts to revive Asia\u2019s fourth biggest economyTwo years ago, the then South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, serenaded Joe Biden in the White House with a rendition of American Pie. The foundation&#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":[41,3332,40,222,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lee-jae-myung","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72108","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=72108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72109,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72108\/revisions\/72109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}