‘Sense of relief and a return to normal’, but can South Korea’s new leader heal the wounds?

There will, no doubt, be sighs of relief across South Korea that, after six months of political turmoil, the start of this new chapter was achieved in a way that was predictable, orderly and without drama. In the end, Lee Jae-Myung won with a decisive margin and voter turnout was the highest it’s been since 1997, an indication perhaps of the overwhelming desire to drawn a line under this period and move on. But Lee has a mountain to climb to achieve the reset for his country that he has promised. South Korea is a nation still deeply scarred by…