SEOUL: President Lee Jae-myung (pic) is set to enter his second week in office focused on filling key Cabinet posts and secretariat appointments, as he gears up for his diplomatic debut at the Group of Seven summit in Canada.

South Korea’s presidential election result was never really in doubt. The real question is which version of Lee Jae-myung will now govern the highly polarized nation of 50 million.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s campaign was marked a pragmatic pivot to the centre, but whether he will bridge left–right divides on foreign policy will be a defining feature of his presidency