Opposition leaders criticize Japan over LINE dispute, Japanese media monitor S. Korea's reaction

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And Japanese media are keeping an eye on this issue, as it has started to create diplomatic and political problems, following opposition political leaders in Korea criticizing Japan's moves to pressure the Korean company.
Our Lee Shi-hoo explains what could be behind these reports.
Many South Korean politicians --mostly from the opposition parties --have been actively voicing criticism of the Japanese government's moves to pressure South Korea's Naver to sell its stake in Line Yahoo --the company behind Japan's most predominant messaging app LINE.
And several reports from Japanese media outlets show that they are keen to follow such remarks from South Korean politicians.
The liberal Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reported Tuesday that "South Korean media are reporting critically on the issue."
It quoted main opposition Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myung's Facebook post on Saturday, which called attention to the fact that Japanese Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Matsumoto Takeaki was the grandson of Ito Hirobumi, the first Japanese resident-general of Korea who worked to initiate Japanese colonial rule of South Korea since the early 19-hundreds.
Lee's post read that: Ito plundered the land of Korea while his grandson is conducting "an invasion of Korea's cyber territory LINE" while at the same time criticizing the South Korean government's passive response.
Many Japanese newspapers also responded to the liberal minor opposition Rebuilding Korea Party leader Cho Kuk's visit to Dokdo island on Monday.
While on the island, the former minister of justice urged the Yoon administration to warn Japan about its attempt to steal LINE, and claim the island as its own.
The conservative Sankei reported on increasing discontent in public opinion in South Korea, while further citing a DP lawmakers' group visit to Dokdo Island last month.
However, there are differences in opinion among South Korean politicians.
Ruling People Power Party lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun on Monday criticized what he called the opposition leaders' "provocative remarks," calling for cooperation across parties to resolve the issue.
Regarding the issue, an expert on foreign relations shared with Arirang News that
"the Japanese news reports closely following South Korean politicians' remarks are misleading public opinion, instead of dealing with the essential problem" of the matter.
Lee Shi-hoo, Arirang News.
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2024-05-14, 18:00 (KST)

[@kin-cz9vu]

its the task for the gov. not opposition party to do something. this current pro japan gov. is something else

[@LoveNPeace369]

word

[@uludak8468]

if japan was concerned about data safety they would have pushed to move japanese data on a japanese owned cloud. but it was just an excuse to seize naver stakes

[@GI876758]

Sure blame others and act as if Naver is not guilty of failing to protect Japanese user data. Lets forget about that and just call out on Japan of 'unfair' treatment cause anti-Japan is all they can use to win the public. Now they call out Japanese media reporting on the anti-Japanese sentiment by Korean politicians instead of saying Naver caused this mess of security failure. Its all Japan's fault in the eyes of Lee, he doesn't care about information safety of Japanese users.

[@grow1820]

then how come they did not say anything when facebook leaked data? it was much worst but Japanese gov did not say anything.
Also when Sony leaked data, they did not say anything. When data is leaked, what you do is fix it or build data center in japan, not force to sell the share of the company.
It is common sense. Tell me one other country does that to a company.