However, because of discontent among the population for fruitless approaches to the North under the previous administrations and, amid North Korean provocations, a conservative government was elected in 2007 led by President Lee Myung-bak, former mayor of Seoul.
Men på grund af utilfredshed blandt befolkningen for frugtløse tilgange til nord under de tidligere regeringer og under indtryk af nordkoreanske provokationer blev en konservativ regering valgt i 2007 ledet af præsident Lee Myung-bak, tidligere borgmester i Seoul.