Lee Do-woon, Spokesman for the President’s Office
Regarding the Korea-Japan summit, the President’s office said, “I believe we have succeeded to some extent in opening the hearts of the Japanese people.”
Spokesman Lee Do-woon said at the briefing, “When the president and his entourage left the accommodation and went to the airport, all the hotel staff lined up in a row and continued clapping a gift,” he said.
“If diplomacy is about opening the other person’s heart and changing the game in bilateral or multilateral relations, President Yoon Seok-yeol’s visit to Japan is a great success,” he said.
“There is a common evaluation not only in Korea and Japan but also in the international community that it has become an important starting point for transforming Korea-Japan relations into one that focuses on the future,” he said.
Regarding domestic criticism, “it is the role of the opposition, and we respect it,” but “the people are worried that they are not able to read the big flow of history or the big version of the international order, and also raise local issues or try to make it a political issue with excessive terms.” revealed.
