Quid game: challenges for South Korea’s president
6/12/202626 min
An interview with Lee Jae Myung, South Korea’s president, a year into his role. Though he has stabilised a turbulent polity and overseen a stock market rally, the path ahead may be bumpy. Can India’s cockroach party become a powerful political movement? And celebrating the creator of “Persepolis”, Marjane Satrapi.
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Guests and host:
- Noah Sneider, East Asia bureau chief
- Tom Sasse, South Asia bureau chief
- Ann Wroe, obituaries editor
- Rosie Blau, host of “The Intelligence”
Topics covered:
- South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, North Korea
- Cockroach party, Narendra Modi, Gen-Z protests
- Marjane Satrapi, Iran, Persepolis
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First 90 secondsNoah Snyder0:00
[reeling sound] The Economist.
Rosie Blore· Host0:04
[upbeat music] Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist. I'm Rosie Bloor. Today on the show, India's cockroach party and remembering Iranian author and artist Marjane Satrapi. First up though.
Speaker 30:37
Hello. Hi. Very nice to meet you. Chris Lockwood.
Noah Snyder0:42
Very nice to meet you. Noah Sneider.
Speaker 30:43
Nice to meet you.
Rosie Blore· Host0:44
Noah Sneider.
Speaker 30:44
Good to see you.
Rosie Blore· Host0:44
Good to- Nice to- Where, where will the president be sitting, just so I can place the microphone in the best place?
Speaker 30:50
Yeah.
Noah Snyder0:51
My colleague Chris Lockwood and I recently paid a visit to an opulent blue tiled complex in central Seoul known as the Blue House.
Rosie Blore· Host1:00
Noah Sneider is our East Asia bureau chief.
Noah Snyder1:03
It's the home of South Korea's political leaders, and we were there to interview Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea's current president. He's been in power for just over a year now, and he took over following his predecessor's turbulent rule, which ended in a declaration of martial law and subsequent impeachment. We walked through well-manicured grounds and into a central building, up a broad staircase and past a textile showing the