My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.