The clock is ticking on South Korea’s new president — even on Day 1

The clock is ticking on South Korea's new president -- even on Day 1 The clock is ticking on South Korea's new president -- even on Day 1

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of “Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan’s Lost Decades.”

It took Lee Jae-myung three hard-fought runs at the South Korean presidency to finally prevail this week. Yet Lee will quickly find that winning the job was the easy part.