The latest in the series of anti-japanese movements started in Korea in June of 2019. The movement is known as the »Boycott Japan« movement that started after Japan removed Korea from its white list of export countries. Shortly after the news were made public the people of Korea connected into a massive anti-Japanese movement. The main purpose of the movement was the boycott of Japan made products. There was a lot of articles written in newspapers such as The Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, Hankyoreh and Kyunghyang Shinmun. Reading through the comments under those articles, we can observe two distinct and opposing points of view regarding the movement. Apart from the newspaper articles and comments under them, people used various social media platforms to voice their opinion regarding the movement. They even made a website and a smartphone application called NoNo Japan. With the help of the website and the application the Koreans were able to distinguish Japan made products and at the same time for find possible alternatives that were produced in Korea or other countries. They have also been very active in writing different blog posts on Naver. In this posts they mostly collected pictures of Japanese brands that should be avoided. Koreans were also very active and eager in voicing their support for the movement on different social networking sites, such as Twitter. In the aftermath of the movement, which resulted in very low sales of japanese products, a lot of japanese businesses had to close their shops across Korea. Even though other problems have taken priority for now, if we take a closer look we can see the movement is still ongoing.
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