With a rare public apology and a pledge to move beyond “ideological divides”, South Korea’s newly appointed foreign minister has pushed aside past dogma – signalling Seoul’s shift towards pragmatic engagement under recently elected President Lee Jae-myung.
The clearest sign of this new direction came on Monday, when Foreign Minister Cho Hyun delivered the apology at his inauguration, acknowledging that the foreign ministry had “failed to meet public expectations” under impeached former president…
