Misleading posts target South Korean President Yoon with 'bowing to Japan flag' claim

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Misleading posts target South Korean President Yoon with 'bowing to Japan flag' claim
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🇰🇷 🇯🇵 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol bowed only to the Japanese flag during his meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida? ❌ Other photos of the event show Yoon and Kishida bowing to both a Japanese flag and a Korean flag behind it

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol claim an image shows him bowing only to the Japanese flag during his meeting within March 2023. The posts circulated as Tokyo and Seoul pledged renewed diplomacy following years of strained relations.

"Banzai" is a Japanese term meaning"long live," which is used to call out a blessing to the emperor. The word was often chanted during the wartime in Japan but is now used in various situations, such as to say"hurrah" after a sports game.in Tokyo in March to thaw long-frozen ties, announcing the end of tit-for-tat trade measures and pledging renewed diplomacy.

The neighbours have for years been locked in a bitter dispute over Japan's use of wartime forced labour. Relations deteriorated when South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Japanese firms to compensate victims of wartime forced labour in 2018.Japan has stated that it will continue to support its historic apologies for wartime acts, but many in South Korea feel that falls short and oppose Yoon's compensation plan.Similar claims about the image have also been shared on Facebook

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