In practice, as a small country in a troubled neighborhood – and with North Korea a constant source of tension – it lives in existential anxiety. And Park, whose victory has not diminished her people’s ambivalent attitude toward her father, must know that healing the obvious divisions in South Korean society will not be easy.
韩国显然是个竭力寻找定位的成功国家。理论上韩国应当庆贺自己的经济文化成就。但实际上，作为身处混乱的一介小国，且与朝鲜长年关系紧张，致使韩国陷入深深的生存焦虑。朴槿惠的获胜并未减弱民众对她父亲的矛盾态度，她肯定知道弥合韩国显而易见的分歧绝非一项轻而易举的工作。