Prohibition of meetings around the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea 18:26 on July 3 to prevent corona expansion
A local ward in charge of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea announced that it will ban the gathering for the time being in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus around the embassy where a protest rally to the Japanese government is held every week. did.
Jongno-gu, Seoul, will ban meetings from the 3rd to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus around the Japanese embassy and around the statue of a girl who symbolizes the comfort women issue located nearby. Announced.
This is a measure based on the Infectious Diseases Prevention Law, and violators will be fined JPY 270,000 or less in Japanese yen.
The ban period is until the Korean government's alert level regarding infectious diseases is lowered, but it is possible to give speeches in the form of a "press conference."
Near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, a protest rally has been held every Wednesday since 1992 to ask the Japanese government for an apology and compensation for the comfort women issue.
On the other hand, regarding the group that holds the protest rally, there was suspicion that the usage of the donation was uncertain, and the prosecutor's office began investigation in May this year. After that, another group that asked to stop the meeting gathered every week around the embassy, and a large number of people gathered.