▲ Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper that delivers news of the general election in Korea


Major Japanese media analyzed on the 16th that voters positively assessed the current government's response to Corona19 about the South Korean general election, which was held on the 15th.

In the current issue with Japan, it is expected that the situation of deterioration in Korea-Japan relations will continue as the Moon Jae-in government, which has maintained its strong stance, has strengthened.

The Asahi Shimbun said that the main issue in the general election was to follow the fertilization of the Moon Jae-in government's Corona 19 countermeasures, and that the proliferation of voters by suppressing the spread of infection through active PCR (gene amplification) tests led to the victory of the ruling party. .

Asahi, which was exacerbated by the issue of compensation for victims of Japanese imprisonment, did not become an issue in this general election, but the government of the Moon Jae-in was strengthened in the matter surrounding the Japan-Japan claim agreement, saying that the liberal ruling party's stance toward Japan in strict sense of history has increased. He predicted that there was a possibility of showing posture.

The newspaper agreed to continue talks with President Shinzo Abe in December last year to continue seeking dialogue on solutions to redress victims of punishment and export restrictions by the Japanese government, but so far no outstanding results have been achieved. State.

The Tokyo Newspaper predicted that if the ruling party was defeated in the general election, President Moon's lame-duck phenomenon, which left his two-year term, was expected to accelerate, but secured a majority of seats to enable stable regime operation. He pointed out that it worked as a breeze.

The Tokyo Newspaper predicted that in the future, Korea-Japan relations would inevitably deteriorate given the current position of the government to emphasize 'victimism of victims' when it comes to resolving current issues in Korea, such as the issue of compensation for victims of conscription.

The newspaper reported that the ruling party won't change the South Korean government's attitude toward Japan, but if the President Moon's approval rating falls, he thinks he can go harder (in Japanese-related issues). I also did.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, a five-year single-term president of the Republic of Korea, often fell into lame due to the end of his tenure, but the Democratic Party won a 16-year general election as a leftist ruling party, while Moon had a stable regime base until the term expired. It is said to have been secured.

The paper analyzed that Korea and Japan will continue to maintain their existing routes while avoiding extreme confrontation in the future, but it is difficult to predict that issues such as the recruitment issue will be resolved.

The right-wing proprietor Sankei Shimbun predicted that the elections would spur the Korean government to spur anti-Japanese diplomatic relations more negatively than other media.

Sankei said that the ruling party won the election in the midterm evaluation of President Moon, and that the evaluation that he responded well to Corona 19 was the driving factor.

Although Sankei is expressing his willingness to improve relations between Korea and Japan, such as President Moon referring to future-oriented partnerships, the ROK-Japan relations were heard by the ruling party and supporters who voiced a voice claiming to break the 2015 Japan-Japan agreement on resolving the comfort women victim problem. I expected that the improvement could be even further.

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