Yoon Seok-you, a candidate for the Korean opposition, Meeting with the Japanese Ambassador "If Japan-South Korea relations improve, 450,000 Koreans living in Japan will be able to relax."

On the 26th, the next president-elect candidate Yoon Seok-you of the Korean opposition party “People Power Party” met with Koichi Aiboshi, the Japanese ambassador to South Korea. Foreigners can spend their time calmly."

Candidate Yoon met with Ambassador Aiboshi in Seoul on this day and said, "If the relationship between the two countries becomes rigid and the atmosphere becomes awkward, the activities of those people (Korean people living in Japan) will become severe."

In response, Ambassador Aiboshi said, "In 1999, when I first came to South Korea, it was a good time for Japan-South Korea relations following the Kim Dae Jung-Obuchi Declaration." Candidate Yoon responded, "You worked for the first time (in South Korea) when the atmosphere was very good," and mentioned the song "Invisible Love" by singer Shin Seung Hun. The ambassador seems to like this song, but it was originally my eighteenth. I heard that the ambassador is also studying Korean and is interested in Korean songs and culture."

Ambassador Aiboshi said, "In February, according to a survey by a travel company, South Korea was the second most popular country for Japanese women in their teens and 20s to go to after the COVID-19 virus ended. The same was true for women in their 40s who answered that they wanted to go to South Korea." The two talked about Japan-South Korea relations in a relaxed atmosphere from beginning to end.

After the interview, Yoon met with reporters and expressed a satisfying expression, saying, "For the future of Japan-South Korea relations, we were able to relax and talk with each other."