South Korea’s Moon Jae-in victorious on May 9, 2017. AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon May 9, 2017 Four challenges for Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s new president Markus Bell, University of Sheffield and Marco Milani, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences An aggressive neighbor to the north, a sputtering economy at home – and two more thorny issues facing South Korea’s new president.
Moon Jae-in (L) seems to be outpacing his rivals. EPA/Chung Sung-Jun May 4, 2017 South Korea’s next president faces a belligerent north and a confused US Markus Bell, University of Sheffield and Marco Milani, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Seoul’s Blue House looks set to host its first liberal president in a decade.
Ahn Young-Joon/Reuters March 31, 2017 What South Korean president Park’s political demise means for the region’s geopolitics Craig Mark, Kyoritsu Women's University Beyond her own personal humiliation, the ramifications of Park’s fall are already reverberating from domestic South Korean politics into the fraught geopolitics of Northeast Asia.