Relaxed style and no mention of Yoon: key takeaways from two hours with South Korea’s new president

Lee Jae-myung shows no sign of grandeur, cutting very different figure to impeached predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol

South Korea’s president, Lee Jae-myung, has given his first big press conference, a month after winning an election in a country shaken by a brief declaration of martial law imposed by his now-impeached predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol.

Everything about the event seemed designed to signal a break from the defensive, isolated style of previous Yoon administration.