After months of political uncertainty, South Korea has a new president. Lee Jae-myung, the former mayor of a wealthy Seoul satellite city who leveraged that experience into a governorship of the country’s most populous province and chairmanship of the Democratic Party (DP), won a decisive 49.4-percent victory over the ruling party’s leading candidate. Lee’s victory…
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About Arius Derr
Arius Derr is Director of Communications at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) in Washington, DC.
Previously he was Managing Editor at Korea Risk Group, where he oversaw the consultancy’s primary publications NK News and NK Pro, as well as Korea Desk Editor at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research. Arius has also worked as a researcher at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University (ANU), as Editor at KBS, South Korea’s public broadcaster, Research Associate in the Strategy Division of United States Forces Korea, and as Consultant for the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
His PhD research at the ANU focuses on U.S. nuclear policy. He also holds a MA in International Security from Korea University and a BS in Political Science & International Relations from Boise State University.