| President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol burns incense to pay tribute to Korean patriotic martyrs and war dead at the National Cemetery in Seoul, March 10, following his victory in the presidential election. Yonhap |
President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday he will trust and follow the will of the people as he vowed to close any national divisions.
"I will solely trust the people and follow the people's will," Yoon said in remarks given at the National Assembly Library in western Seoul.
"(The election results) constitute a call for reform, and the restoration of justice and common sense as well as the people's desperate appeal to conduct the politics of unity, not division," Yoon noted.
Yoon was elected president earlier in the day with the smallest ever 0.73 percentage-point gap over liberal rival Lee Jae-myung.
"It is a difficult order to make a nation with new hopes ... and I will never forget such a call from the people." (Yonhap)