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| A man swipes a television screen in front of ticket booths inside Seoul Station, Friday, while breaking news shows Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga with a headline "The Japanese government delists South Korea from the whitelist," referring to Japan's list of trusted trading partners. The news confirmed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was determined to enforce additional economic retaliation against South Korea over a row surrounding wartime forced labor during the World War II. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul |
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| People watch YTN's breaking news on a television screen inside Seoul Station, Friday. Showing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the news report's headline says the network will evaluate the latest announcement from the Japanese Cabinet regarding Korea being delisted from Japan's whitelist and discuss how the Japanese move will affect Korea's economy and financial markets. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul |
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| A Gangnam District employee removes a Japanese flag among tens of other national flags hung along Tehran-ro Road in downtown Seoul. The district ordered the move in expression of disappointment over the Japanese government's decision to delist South Korea from its trusted trading partners' so-called whitelist. Yonhap |
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| South Korean protesters hold up signs at a rally against Japan in front of a building that houses the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved the removal of South Korea from the countries with preferential trade status, a move sure to fuel antagonism already at boiling point over recent export controls and the issue of compensation for wartime Korean laborers. The signs read 'No Abe!' AP-Yonhap |
