It was found that the Japanese people positively evaluated the summit held on the 16th, when Yoon Seok-yeol’s government unilaterally made a concession on the issue of compensation for victims of forced labor, a key pending issue between South Korea and Japan. reported that as a result of a telephone survey (1,001 respondents) conducted over the previous three days on the 20th, 65% of respondents gave a positive assessment of the Korea-Japan summit. Only 24% were negative. As a result of the poll on the 18th and 19th (1304 respondents), it was reported that the positive opinion was 63%, much higher than the negative opinion (21%). Public opinion reflected the reality that a solution was unilaterally favorable to Japan for a problem that the two countries had been unable to find a solution for a long time. The approval rating of Fumio Kishida’s cabinet also rose. In the survey, it was 40%, up 5 percentage points from a month ago, and in the survey, it rose 1 percentage point to 42%. However, nearly 60% of Japanese people held the opinion that Korea-Japan relations will not change significantly in the future. When asked about the outlook for Korea-Japan relations, 61% of respondents in the survey and 57% in Edo also answered that they are not changing. This is interpreted to be because there is a high level of opposition in South Korea regarding the concession to victims of forced labor without apology and compensation from the Japanese defendant company, and there are a number of ongoing issues that need to be resolved between South Korea and Japan. Correspondent Kim So-yeon, Tokyo/dandy@hani.co.kr
