Every national leader, scored across up to eight dimensions of tenure contribution — from governance and economy to politics and crisis response. Compare current form against the legacy they'll leave behind.
Lee Jae Myung, President of South Korea, has no composite Leadership score yet — too few dimensions have sourced data to compute one. Their standout dimension is Institutional Integrity (92/100). The pressure to watch: Weak Stability Trend — Stability Trend of 39 indicates that the recent direction is a material pressure even when the broader stability level remains stronger.
The data & sources
Lee Jae Myung carries no composite rating: too few dimensions have sourced data, so it renders as "No data" rather than a filled-in guess. Diplomatic Conduct 80/100 (medium confidence) — performance-under-test blend from directed GDELT events + UCDP. Governing-stability conditions score 78/100, renormalised over WGI, V-Dem and UCDP.
The risk read
For country-risk purposes, Lee Jae Myung's tenure reads as broadly stable: governing-stability conditions score 78/100. Crisis exposure 10/100 (Minimal exposure); response untested. For the full opportunity, market-pulse and resilience read, see South Korea's nation page.
The strategic read
Governing conditions: stability 78/100. Live pressures: weak stability trend.
Analyst OutlookAI · not a sourced score
claude-fable-5 · 2026-08-24
Cited, adversarially-verified forward analysis — every claim is sourced and survived a red-team. An LLM intelligence brief, not a sourced score, and never blended into this leader's ratings.
Trump halved the joint drills and Kim slammed the door, yet the number killing Lee Jae-myung is 9.56% — Seoul housing inflation — while the alliance 'crisis' he is blamed for is quietly delivering the wartime-command transfer Korean progressives could never negotiate on their own terms.
The Consensus
The honeymoon is over: Lee's pragmatic pivot won a year of goodwill and a 3%-plus, chip-fuelled economy, but approval has fallen from 64% to the low 40s in four months on housing, a supermajority's judicial overreach and a Trump who cut the joint drills and told Seoul it isn't earning its US troops; conservatives read one-party drift, foreign investors have sold Korean assets for six straight months.
The October 2026 Security Consultative Meeting produces a dated target for wartime OPCON transfer — a year no later than 2030 — rather than another 'conditions-based' roadmap.
AI · not a sourced score · claude-fable-5 · 4 cited sources · red-teamed · never blended into ratings
Wrong if no SCM is held by 2026-12-31, or if its joint communiqué names no target year for OPCON transfer, or names a year later than 2030. by 2026-12-31
Confidence68%
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Strongest counter — The SCM has slipped before, Trump just used readiness as a bargaining chip over Iran, and a US that halves drills on a whim can also refuse to bind itself to a date — leaving Seoul with a 'roadmap' and no year. Survives because both sides now want the same thing for different reasons: Seoul for autonomy, Washington to offload; the USFK commander has already published the conditions timeline and the 2026 strategy prices USFK adjustments from 2030, so the date is the easy concession to make.
No sourced communication signal yet. This blends GDELT coverage tone, media reach and message resilience — it populates once GDELT indexes enough coverage of this leader.
Diplomatic Conduct
80/ 10090% sourced · severity 28
Conduct 73 · Test Severity 28 → 80
Cooperative ratio20%84
Share of the country's international interactions coded cooperative vs conflictual
Restraint20%64
Inverse of net material force the country projects — armed-conflict events it initiates minus those it absorbs. Force projected abroad lowers it; being invaded does not
Coalition breadth15%82
Crisis
Exposure
10/ 100
Minimal exposure
Response
Untested
Untested
Low confidence · no major shock in mandate
Worst year (2025) — shock drivers
Conflict intensity0
Economic contraction31
Each is a global percentile: how this year's shock compares to every country-year on record. Disaster shocks are not yet sourced (no open-licensed annual series).
Sourced from 2 mandate-years (2025–2026), 2 of 4 shock components present.
SourceWorld Bank GDP + UCDP deaths (annual + Candidate GED) + WGI stability
Leadership Radar
Tenure Contribution · to date
Balanced profile — 12-point spread from Institutional Integrity to Diplomacy.
Country scores are blended with live World Bank data where available. Difficulty reflects the structural challenge of governing this nation — not the leader's individual performance.
Source: World Bank·Method: Unweighted average·✓ Reconstructable
Leadership Archetype
Awaiting data
No archetype yet — not enough sourced stats to classify one. The archetype is derived from the leadership stat profile; it populates once enough dimensions are sourced.
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Key questions
Who is Lee Jae Myung?
Lee Jae Myung is the President of South Korea, from the Democratic Party of Korea.
What challenges does Lee Jae Myung face?
The main pressures are weak stability trend. Stability Trend of 39 indicates that the recent direction is a material pressure even when the broader stability level remains stronger.
How is Lee Jae Myung viewed internationally?
Lee Jae Myung has a Diplomatic Conduct score of 80/100.
Data coverage:107 Sourced·85 Derived|Scores refreshed: 2026-08-24·snap-20260824-c9f25cd0|Methodology:Reconstructable|Cite:How to cite
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✓ Reconstructable
ⓘLeadership Rating measures change under the leader relative to global trends — a score near 60 means performance broadly matched the benchmark trajectory. It is a weighted average of up to eight dimensions, renormalised over the ones with sourced data (the coverage note beside the score says how many), and requires all four core dimensions — Governance, Economy, Politics and Institutional Integrity — to be sourced. Five use live World Bank indicators; the rest are derived from sourced signals (WIPO/Oxford/UNESCO, GDELT, World Bank + UCDP, survey data) where coverage exists. Diplomacy is a GDELT-derived engagement proxy, and anything unsourced shows as no data. Political position is V-Dem V-Party expert coding. Full weights on the Methodology page.
How many distinct countries it cooperates with as initiator
Agreements & mediation15%89
Mediating, negotiating and signing formal agreements as initiator (GDELT CAMEO)
Sanctions balance10%10
Sanctions the country imposes minus those imposed on it
Engagement volume10%90
Count of international diplomatic events — country-level
Media tone10%—
Favourability of foreign coverage of the leader on diplomacy — leader-level, low-weighted
Partial coverage: 90% of the formula's weight is currently sourced; the score renormalises over what's present. Remaining components appear as data lands.
SourceGDELT 2.1 Events + DOC APIMethodPerformance-under-test blend, severity-amplifiedConfMedium✓ ReconstructableⓘHow a head of state conducts themselves on the world stage, not how much activity their country generates. Blends cooperative ratio (20%), Restraint (inverse of net force projected, 20%), coalition breadth (15%), agreements & mediation (15%), sanctions balance (10%), engagement (10%) and leader media tone (10%), renormalised over available data. Test Severity (active conflict + conflictual share + sanctions received) amplifies the blend so conduct under fire moves the score more. Full model on the Methodology page.
ⓘCrisis Exposure measures how severely a leader was tested — a peak-biased aggregate of per-year shock severity (conflict intensity, economic contraction and political-stability decline vs. recent normal) over the mandate. It is context, not a verdict: high exposure is neither good nor bad on its own. Crisis Response measures how the country fared during its genuine crisis years relative to comparable crisis episodes worldwide — country-years hit with the same shock severity. Higher = less national damage than peers at that severity. Leaders who never faced a major shock are marked Untested rather than rewarded. Per country-year, real WB/UCDP/WGI shocks are winsorised and percentile-ranked into a ShockSeverity; Exposure is the peak-biased mandate aggregate. Crisis years (severity ≥ 60) score Response = 100 − damage percentile among comparable-severity crises worldwide, then severity-weighted over the mandate. Untested = no major shock (never rewarded). Absent components are reweighted, never filled.
Politics
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Crisis Response
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Vision
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Communication
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Institutional Integrity
92
Source: World Bank + derived·Method: Contribution·✓ ReconstructableⓘEach dimension measures change under the leader relative to global trends — how the indicator moved over their tenure, net of the world's move over the same window — not the country's absolute level. A score near 60 means performance broadly matched the benchmark trajectory; above = improved the country's standing, below = declined. Governance / Economy / Politics / Institutional Integrity from World Bank WGI, WDI and V-Dem trajectories; Vision from the country's innovation rank (WIPO patents + UNESCO tertiary), former leaders only (patents lag ~3 years); Crisis Response (World Bank + UCDP + WGI, an absolute response-quality scale) and Communication (GDELT) from tenure signals; Diplomacy (Diplomatic Conduct) is active-only. A tenure under six months, or an indicator whose series hasn't reached the term, shows as no data. Full model on the Methodology page.
Stewardship
Inherited-strength lens · separate from the rating
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Governance
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Politics
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Integrity
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Innovation
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0 of 4 groups eligible and sourced
Source: World Bank WGI + V-Dem + derived·Method: Stewardship·✓ ReconstructableⓘMeasures whether strong institutions inherited at the start of the tenure were preserved, improved or eroded. It does not reward the leader for inheriting a strong country. A metric qualifies only when the inherited baseline was at least 75 on its normalized scale; the score is the world-net change over the tenure on the single public scale (60 = preserved relative to global movement). Requires two or more eligible sourced groups, the six-month tenure floor and a post-tenure-start observation — otherwise No data, never a zero. Weights mirror the current-form groups (gov 0.17 · pol 0.15 · int 0.08 · vis 0.09), renormalized over what is eligible and sourced.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Top Strengths
Institutional Integrity92
Perceived transparency and anti-corruption track record
Diplomacy80
International relations and multilateral negotiation
Key Weaknesses
Source: Derived·Method: Ranked by stat value·✓ ReconstructableⓘUp to 5 strengths (dimensions scoring 70+) and 5 weaknesses (scoring 57 or below), ranked from the leadership radar. Dimensions in the 58–69 benchmark band appear in neither column. Descriptions are fixed per dimension and don't vary by country. Dimensions without a sourced signal show as no data. Full model on the Methodology page.
Lee Jae Myung — President, South Korea (2025–present) | NationsHelm
Current Challenges
Weak Stability Trendmedium
Stability Trend of 39 indicates that the recent direction is a material pressure even when the broader stability level remains stronger.
Source: Derived·Method: Rule-based·✓ ReconstructableⓘFlags challenges when a sourced dimension falls below the published benchmark band: any leadership dimension < 58 (severe < 48), Stability < 50, Crisis Exposure > 60, or regime continuity/legitimacy < 40 — plus an adverse Stability Trend, adverse External Conditions, or Severely Constrained / Extreme domestic context. Economy derives from World Bank indicators; Institutional Integrity from V-Dem's executive-corruption index (World Bank Control of Corruption as fallback); Communication from GDELT media reach, tone and resilience; Crisis Exposure and continuity from the stability blend. A low Communication signal can mean thin coverage OR wide-but-hostile coverage — the flag distinguishes the two.
Leadership Conditions
Government Stability
78
Low political violence · Legitimate transfers of power · Politically stable
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Country scores are the unweighted average of scored World Bank indicators — the same model used on the nation's own page. Difficulty reflects structural constraints on governing this nation, independent of the current leader.
External Conditions
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No World Bank data for this tenure period.
Stability breakdown
Political stability33%77
WGI Political Stability & Absence of Violence
Institutional strength22%74
WGI Rule of Law, Government Effectiveness & Control of Corruption
Continuity & legitimacy17%93
V-Dem political continuity and regime legitimacy
Violence & safety17%100
UCDP organized-violence deaths, population-scaled and inverted — prefers the fresh current-year UCDP-CED reading, else the finalized annual GED
Stability trend
Time in Office 14 months·Since 2025-06
Source: WGI · V-Dem · UCDP · trend·Method: Weighted blend·✓ ReconstructableⓘGovernment Stability blends six sourced signals, renormalised over what's available: WGI Political Stability (30%), institutional strength (20%), V-Dem continuity (15%), UCDP violence deaths (current-year UCDP-CED where available, else finalized annual GED, 15%), Fragile States social cohesion (10%) and the 3-year WGI trend (10%). External Conditions derives from a World Bank GDP-growth shock over the tenure.
