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Japan promulgated legislation excluding South Korea from the export list, the white list. Although no additional export-regulated items were specified, like the three semiconductor materials, the Japanese government has made arbitrary retaliation any time.

This is reporter Park Chan-keun.

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With Japan excluding Korea from the white list, which is the preferred country for export procedures, three weeks from now, more than 1,100 strategic items related to security must be approved in principle.

However, it is said that the worst situation was avoided because no additional regulated items were specified in addition to three items such as hydrogen fluoride, which had been blocked for more than a month.

At this stage, it seems that they want to watch the situation while refraining from escalating.

[Moon Byung-gi / Principal Researcher, Korea International Trade Association: It would have been a burden to further deteriorate public opinion or strengthen the confrontation situation by additional regulations while simultaneously deciding to exclude whitelists.]

However, if you look closely at the published enforcement regulations, you can find that even exports of Japanese-certified companies that can receive special comprehensive licenses can be subject to individual permits if they can be diverted for military purposes.

In addition, as general items that did not require an export permit so far can be subject to 'catch-all' regulations, there is still a possibility of arbitrarily controlling the export of certain items depending on the situation.

An official of the Blue House said that as Japan issued the amendment but did not designate additional regulated items, it would be a kind of "breathing dimension" and that it would not be necessary to add a higher level of response right now.