21 February 2022 | KOREA CHAIR EXPLAINS
Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Moon Jae-in has entered his last few weeks as South Korean president. A new president will be elected on March 9th and take office in May. Differently to previous South Korean presidents, Moon has not had a real lame-duck period. This has been the result of his Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) holding a supermajority in the National Assembly, as well as the need for active government intervention to manage the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the pandemic is set to define Moon’s legacy as much as the policies that his government enacted during its first three years in office. What are the key domestic legacies of the Moon Jae-in presidency? And what have been the main domestic shortcomings of the Moon Jae-in presidency? Read more…