President Yoon Sung-yeol of the Republic of Korea will visit the Korean Cenotaph for the Victims of the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima City with Prime Minister Kishida on June 21. This is the first visit by a South Korean president, and the South Korean government says it is a sign of President Yoon's intention to deepen relations between the two countries in a future-oriented manner while looking at the past.
It is said that tens of thousands of people from the Korean Peninsula were killed when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.