On the 13th, the Korean team won 4-1 in the Korea-Japan friendly soccer match between the National Assembly held at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan.
Representative Jeong Jin-seok, chairman of the National Assembly Football Federation of Korea, shared the news of the 4-1 victory on Facebook that day, saying, “The Korean team showed great performances from Rep. Dong-man Jeong and Seung-nam Kim.” We have gone on a normalization path, and through friendly exchanges between legislators from both countries, we are gradually returning to the good times of the past. “
For this day’s match, 24 members of the Korean National Assembly left for Japan via Incheon International Airport the day before. In the power of the people, Representative Jeong Jin-seok in the 5th term, Kim Hak-yong in the 4th term, Lee Hun-seung and Cho Hae-jin in the 3rd term, Kim Seok-ki and Song Seok-jun in the 3rd season, Kang Dae-sik and Kang Min-guk, Kim Byung-wook and Kim Seon-gyo, Kim Seung-soo, Kim Hyung-dong, Park Seong-min, Park Hyung-soo, Bae Jun-young and Bae Hyun -jin, Lee Yong and Lee Ju-hwan and the first season, representatives Jeong Dong-man and Hwang Bo-seung-hee participated. Two legislators Kim Young-jin and Kim Seung-nam from the Democratic Party of Korea and Ryu Ho-jeong from the Justice Party participated. From the Japanese side, a total of 23 people participated, including Chairman Seishiro Eto and Secretary General Ichiro Aisawa, who belong to the Liberal Democratic Party.
Seishiro Eto, president of the Japan Football Diplomacy Promotion Council, joked that “there are no ambulances ready today,” emphasizing the spirit of unity, camaraderie and camaraderie for players from both countries before the start of the match. Representative Jeong Jin-seok said, “In today’s game, I hope that Japan will focus on friendship and not think that Japan will take revenge. “I hope to play a big role in its development.”
The victory of the Korean team on this day was evaluated as an unexpected success. Even until the day before the game, Rep. Chung said, “The Japanese team is mostly born in the 80s, and we are born in the 60s.”
According to Japan’s Kyodo News, Congressman Jeong Jin-seok, who is also the president of the Korea-Japan Federation of Parliamentarians, met with former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who serves as the president of the Japan-Korea Parliamentary Federation. In a meeting with Congressman Chung, former Prime Minister Suga said, “The movement to improve Korea-Japan relations is on the right track.” Yokohama, where the soccer match was held on this day, is the area of former Prime Minister Suga.
In November last year, Japanese lawmakers visited Korea to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup and played a friendly match at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, where the opening ceremony of the World Cup was held.
