South Korean progressives' 'Park Chung-hee' coalition in the AI era

Park Chung-hee, left, led South Korea to unprecedented economic prosperity in the 1960s and 1970s while restricting workers, journalists and opponents. Observers say the nation's current president, Lee Jae Myung, right, must forge economic transformation without repression. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters)Joseph Yi is an associate professor of political science at Hanyang University in Seoul.