Moving back to Cheong Wa Dae revives questions of power, proximity and listening
A presidency that once promised openness believed that walls could do the work of will. Three years and seven months later, South Korea has learned that architecture does not govern power. Leadership does.
On Monday, President Lee Jae Myung’s administration formally closed the Yongsan chapter and reentered the Blue House complex, ending an experiment born of impatience and concluded in trauma.
What began as a pledge to escape the isolation of a “secret palace” ended amid administrative disorder, fiscal waste and the political collapse surrounding for
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