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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shweta Sharma

Lee Jae Myung calls South Korean presidential office a ‘graveyard’ after shambolic handover of power

President Lee takes his inaugural oath at at the National Assembly (Anthony Wallace)

The newly sworn-in president of South Korea quipped on his first day in charge that the presidential office left behind by his ousted predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol, felt like a “graveyard”, with not even a pencil left behind.

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