Quid game: challenges for South Korea's president

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  Today on the show, India's Cockroach Party and remembering Iranian author and artist Marjane Satrapi.

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  First up, though.

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  My colleague Chris Lockwood and I recently paid a visit

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  to an opulent blue-tiled complex in central Seoul known as the Blue House.

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  Noah Sneider is our East Asia bureau chief.

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  It's the home of South Korea's political leaders,

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  and we were there to interview Lee Jae Myung, South Korea's current president.

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  He's been in power for just over a year now

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  and he took over following his predecessor's turbulent rule,

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  which ended in a declaration of martial law and subsequent impeachment.

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  We walked through well-manicured grounds and into a central building, up a broad staircase

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  and past a textile showing the entirety of the Korean Peninsula in what seemed like full bloom,

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  and into a grand meeting room.

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  There, President Lee really projected a kind of calm and confidence.

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  He was clearly trying to signal that South Korea is back on track

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  and that he is guiding the country in the right direction,

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  that the country can move past this abnormal period of chaos and forwards towards a brighter future

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