South Korea Leader Appeals to Japan as Dispute Festers
By Choe Sang-Hun
Aug. 15, 2019
Motoko Rich contributed reporting from Tokyo.
Is Choe Sang-Hun Korean nationalist abroad?
“If Japan chooses the path of dialogue and cooperation, we will gladly join hands,” he added.
Motoko Rich can't understand Japanese. So she doesn't know what Japanese media has been saying.
Japan has been offering the dialogues with S.Korea. It is South Korea which had been refusing the talk.
Mr. Moon used Thursday’s anniversary — a national holiday in South Korea — to nevertheless urge Tokyo to stop using trade as a weapon to address historical grievances that have poisoned ties between the allies for decades and recently increasingly alarmed Washington.
In the last two months, Japan has removed South Korea from its list of preferential trading partners and tightened controls on the export of three chemicals essential to making the semiconductors and flat-panel displays that South Korean companies sell around the world, including for Apple iPhones.
EU has not put South Korea in its list of preferential trading partners. Is the EU using the trade as a weapon of something?
South Koreans have marched on the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, the capital; begun a widespread boycott of Japanese clothes, beers, cosmetics and cars; and curtailed tourist travel to Japan.
South Koreans are boycotting the innocent companies which have nothing to do with Abe's decision. It is just a manifistication of anti-Japanism.
In his Thursday address, Mr. Moon urged Japan not to disrupt “a highly sophisticated division of labor” that has allowed both nations to prosper.
There is no stable division of labor in the global market. Some South Korean companies took the place of Japanese companies. If South Korea can't provide what the consumers need, somebody else replaces South Korea.
Besides, there is little effect on the market. It is just that it takes little time for Japanese companies and the government to process the required documents.
In recent weeks, South Korean and Japanese political leaders both stoked nationalistic sentiments at home
Did Abe stoke nationalistic sentiments? What did he say? No Japanese is boycotting Korean products. The tour to Korea has increased.
But South Korea says the 1965 deal did not cover individual victims’ rights to seek redress for brutal colonial-era practices like using Korean women and men, including teenagers, for sexual slavery or forced labor. It insists that Japan has never sincerely atoned for — and instead has tried to whitewash — its brutalities.
Liar liar liar.
In 2005, the administration led by President Roh Moo-hyun concluded that the compensation payment was covered by Japan's "economic cooperation" grants, loans and other funds that were paid to South Korea for the settlement of problems stemming from property and other claims under the 1965 treaty. And Moon Jae-in, the current president of South Korea, was deeply involved in this matter as a high official at the time.
The 1,200 pages of documents show that South Korea agreed never to make further compensation demands, either at the government or individual level, after receiving $800 million in grants and soft loans from Japan as compensation for its 1910-45 colonial rule.
The documents were drawn up in 1963-65, the final years of South Korea's 14-year normalization talks with its former colonial ruler. The two neighbors established diplomatic ties in 1965 amid strong protests in South Korea.
If Mr. Abe expected he could force South Korea to make concessions on past disputes through trade penalties, he miscalculated. South Koreans have rallied behind Mr. Moon as he has vowed to fight back.
He didn't. He dropped South Korea from white-list for security reasons.
He hasn't taken " necessary measures against the Republic of Korea" yet.
7. Given the severe situation surrounding the Japan-Republic of Korea relationship caused by the Republic of Korea side, including the aforementioned, the Government of Japan will be taking necessary measures against the Republic of Korea.
Some gas stations in South Korea have put up signs saying Japanese cars are unwelcome.
That's racism！
Earlier this month, a news anchor on the national broadcaster KBS had to clarify on air that the ballpoint pen he held was not Japanese.
That is an example of how stupid Korean nationalism is.
Mr. Moon himself has also begun acknowledging that South Korea and Japan were locked in “a game with no winners” and that South Korea should not become too “emotional.”
Can you expect Koreans not to be too emotional?
And Japan has signaled it is easing off. It approved the shipment of a key high-tech material to South Korea last week, helping ease the tensions.
Oh my goodness. It is not easing off. It is doing what it has been saying. As soon as the required document is processed, and it is confirmed there is no problem. it approves the shipment. That is what's explained in Japanese media. Watch Japanse TV！
The mayor of Junggu, a central Seoul district with shopping centers frequented by Japanese tourists, called off plans to put up hundreds of “No Japan” placards after he was swamped by criticism that his plan would unnecessarily antagonize Japanese visitors.
But Korean lawmakers just canceled visiting Japan because of the atmosphere in South Korea, they say.
17:56 Korean professor says that rally against Moon Jae in is taking place every week. As of Aug.15th, the rally drew at least two hundred thousand protesters.
No Korean media cover it because I think one way of another Moon controls the media.
The Korean professor said he had a photo of the rally. According to the organizers, the rally gathered 300000 people. I can't confirm whether it is true or not. I am in Japan. Just go and visit Seoul and check if it is true or not.
That is the business of a journalist no?
A journalist should study the background and present an accurate picture of the events.
A journalist should fact-check.
A foreign correspondent should check the local media.
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この件の本質をいみじくも江川さんが指摘している。韓国で保守側のデモがあるのは事実。だけどこれが全く報道されないの。なんなんこれ。江川さんでさえ「友人から見せられた」と言ってる。メディアの腐敗ぶりがよく分かるツイート。 https://t.co/kjy3EN8N6r
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