The province canceled planned participation in a local festival at Tsushima Island this week.

The province decided to so as local boycott of Japanese goods has been intensifying in response to Japan’s recent decision to curb exports of high-tech materials to Korea.

Meanwhile, a delegation of the National Assembly led by (강창일) Gang Chang-il, one of the Jeju representatives at the National Assembly, visited Japan on July 31st in an attempt to resolve the situation.

Joseph Kim reports.

The province has canceled the planned participation in the the Izuhara Port Festival held on the Tsushima Island during this coming weekend for Tokyo's recent decision to curb exports of high-tech materials to Seoul.

[slug] Province cancels participation in festival on Tsushima Island

The province had planned to send the island's classical music and dance troupes to the festival for haenyeo's songs, rowing songs and a dance performance with water jars.

[slug] Seogwipo City indefinitely postpones teenager cultural exchange

Seogwipo City has determined to indefinitely postpone a cultural exchange program in which the city and its Japanese sister city, Kinokawa, send their middle schoolers to each other's city for homestays.

The program has been carried out over the last ten years.

The province is cautiously determining whether to push forward with planned administrative, cultural and art interchange programs with Japan considering the national situation, timing, features of programs and public sentiment.

[slug] Province: Considering national situation, timing, public sentiment

If the chill between the two countries continues, public and private interchange projects would likely be canceled.

This means the anti-Japanese movement of the private sector is being extended to the administrative sector.

Meanwhile, a delegation of the National Assembly led by (강창일) Gang Chang-il, one of the Jeju representatives at the National Assembly, visited Japan on July 31st to discuss the current situation with Japanese lawmakers in an attempt to thaw the chilled relationships and not to exclude Korea from the Japanese whitelist.

[slug] Korean lawmakers visited Japan

The delegation had a plan to meet the secretary-general of the Japanese ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. However, the meeting was finally canceled.

[Report] Joseph Kim
[Camera] Kim Yong-min

The visit is critical as Japan is going to decide whether to remove Korea from its "whitelist", a list of countries enjoying preferential treatment in trade on August 2nd.

Joseph Kim, KCTV