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Four challenges for Moon Jae-in, South Korea's new president

  • Written by Markus Bell, Anthropologist and Lecturer in Korean and Japanese studies, University of Sheffield
imageSouth Korea's Moon Jae-in victorious on May 9, 2017.AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

Democrat Moon Jae-in is the new president of South Korea.

Moon, a former special forces soldier turned human rights lawyer, won a snap election, following months of mass protests that ousted President Park Geun-hye last December.

The grace period for Moon will be short....

Read more: Four challenges for Moon Jae-in, South Korea's new president

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