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UNIQLO, a clothing company whose sales have declined 70% recently due to a boycott of Japanese products, has recently reduced its stores. It's irrelevant to the boycott, but it seems inevitable that the decline in sales can last for a long time.

This is reporter Park Chan-keun.

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It is a UNIQLO store located in a hypermarket in Nowon-gu, Seoul.

Unlike nearby stores that are busy on weekends, few people are looking for them.

[Shinhwa Song / Gyeonggi Uijeongbu City: Before the Japanese crisis, people (at the UNIQLO store) were crowded.

There was a sign in front of the store saying that it will only be open until the 15th of next month.

It is the third after Jongno and Guro, which have already announced that they will close.

Analysts say the Japanese product boycott may have been affected, but the company claims it is not true.

The decision to close the business was made two months before Japan's export restrictions.

[Uniclaw official: There is a case of reorganizing the store, and the contract expires without renewing the contract according to the contract terms and the result of negotiation with the landlord.]

UNIQLO is hitting sales by becoming the top boycott.

In the fourth week of July, sales declined by 70% from the last week of June, just before Japan's export restrictions.

As the boycott of Japanese products is gradually strengthening, there are no signs of fading.