Honey Moon? New South Korean leader's popularity surges with common man touch

SEOUL (Reuters) - He removes his own jacket, brushing off an aide who tried to take it off like a butler. He takes questions from journalists without vetting them first. He gets a $3 lunch with employees at a Blue House cafeteria and tweets about his adopted cats and dogs who found a new home in the presidential palace.

That may seem unremarkable elsewhere, but newly-elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in's "common man" touch is being feted in a country more used to authoritarian rule by aloof leaders.