Controversy arises over a group photo taken by President Yoon Seok-yeol with leaders of Japan, Australia and New Zealand while attending the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain.



Currently, on the NATO official website, there is a group photo that President Yun took yesterday (29th local time) with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanage, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. .



The NATO website posted a group photo explaining that the four leaders invited as NATO's Asia-Pacific partners had a summit in Madrid.



The problem is that, unlike other leaders in this group photo, only President Yoon has his eyes closed.



As a result of checking the appearance at the time of the group photo shoot, not a photo, it was confirmed that President Yoon responded to the photo shoot with his eyes open just like other leaders.



This is the only one NATO has released as a group photo of the heads of four Asia-Pacific partners.



NATO is releasing a group photo of only President Yoon with his eyes closed on its official website, but domestic netizens are expressing their displeasure, saying it is 'out of common sense'.



There are also many voices that we should ask NATO to replace the photos of the protocol team that is assisting President Yoon in Spain.



Controversy continues as the 'group photo with closed eyes' following US President Joe Biden's 'no-look handshake' was released.



(Video coverage: Main culprit Choi Dae-woong / Editing: Jung Yong-hee / Production: D Content Planning Department)