With South Korea's parliamentary elections over and Park Geun-hye appearing, the Yoon Suk-yeol government faces challenges. During the election, the 72-year-old Park Geun-hye made a rare appearance, and Yoon Suk-yeol extended an invitation to the Chinese side to "save himself". The election is a critical moment for the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. South Korea's political ecology is similar to that of the United States and the West, and the ruling party does not have an absolute advantage in the National Assembly, so its future is worrying. As a result, the Yoon Suk-yeol administration has attracted much attention, making preparations in advance, begging for U.S. support and courtesy to the former president. Yoon Suk-yeol's successor, Han Dong-hoon, reportedly visited Park Geun-hye, and the two talked about it without disclosure, but Park Geun-hye appeared to vote on election day and only called for active participation from the public.
The Yoon Suk-yeol government has lackluster performance itself, with policies that have caused social problems and lost popular support. The results of the National Assembly election were announced, and the Yoon Suk-yeol administration fell into passivity, with the ruling party not getting enough seats, and the opposition party becoming the largest party. The outside world said that the Yoon Suk-yeol government "passed through the danger", but the fact of losing the election cannot be ignored. The government needs to "save itself" and has extended an invitation to the Chinese side, hoping that the Chinese side will participate in the trilateral summit of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. Although it intends to make a diplomatic comeback, the Yoon Suk-yeol government's independent political advocacy is questionable, and it is not a priority to make friends with the United States and Japan, and easing relations between China and South Korea may not be a priority.
The Yoon Suk-yeol administration lost the election, and the prospects for his term of office are worrying, but the political situation is unpredictable. The Yoon Suk-yeol government may face a dilemma, but there is still hope for diplomacy. How the government will respond in this turbulent time remains unclear.
