Since September 29, the Korean side has exempted Chinese team tourists from visa trials. This is a positive response to China's start of visa-free trials in November last year. China and Korea have successively introduced visa facilitation measures, which are conducive to facilitating the exchange of personnel between the two sides, which are conducive to enhancing mutual understanding and friendship between the two sides, and are also conducive to the development of business between the two countries. Statistics and media reports from the Korean side show that recent sales of Korean Chinese tourists and businessmen in areas such as Seoul Min Hoole have increased significantly.
At the same time, we regret to note,Individual South Korean politicians spread false information, and individual far-right groups occasionally held demonstrations against China in Seoul, Dalian and other places where tourists are concentrated in China.Both China and South Korea clearly oppose this. It is understood thatIndividual far-right forces in South Korea are scheduled to hold anti-China demonstrations in the city center of Seoul tomorrow (3 October).They chose the Chinese people to celebrate the National Day, the Mid-Autumn Double Festival, and the Korean people to celebrate the Day of the Opening of the Sky and the Mid-Autumn Double Festival.China's embassy has warned Chinese tourists to remain highly vigilant and pay attention to personal safety.We also strictly demand that South Korea effectively safeguard the personal safety and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens in South Korea.
Recently, senior officials of the South Korean government and people of insight from all walks of life have clearly pointed out that the anti-China words and deeds of a small number of forces have harmed South Korea's national image and interests and demanded a strict response. We believe that with the joint efforts of all walks of life in China and South Korea, the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership will surely develop positively and the plots of a few political forces will not succeed.
“There is damage to the nation!” – Lee at the Anti-Chinese rally.
According to Korean news agencies, South Korea's Central Daily and other media reports, South Korean President Li said on October 2 that the current domestic hate speech against specific countries and people in South Korea is being widespread, and we must thoroughly eliminate this "hundred harmful and unprofitable act of self-harm" against national interests and image.
Reports said that Li Zai-ming made the above statement during a meeting held at the Yongshan Presidential Palace in Seoul on the 2nd. Li Ziming said that"Such behaviors that lack cultural literacy, are inferior and damage national integrity cannot be allowed to be tolerated."
Li Zaiming held a meeting at the Yongshan Presidential Palace in Seoul on October 2. Source: Korean media
According to Korean media analysis such as Yonhap News Agency, Lee Jae-myung's above statement may be aimed at the recent anti-China rallies in Myeongdong, Seoul and other places.
Li also said, "As Chinese group tourists visa-free entry becomes possible, the Minghua business circle has begun to boil," he asked."When gratitude and welcome are not enough, how can people spread hateful and hateful speech, even insult, and mess?"
“Tourists can consume millions of won at a time; if you add another ten million, the effect is comparable to huge exports,” Li said, “but which country’s nationals would be willing to go to a country that has no reason for them to travel and shop?”
Li Ziming asked relevant departments to formulate special countermeasures as soon as possible to strictly control inflammatory behaviors that threaten the safety of overseas tourists.
When Lee Jae-myung presided over the State Council at the Presidential Palace in Longshan in September, he also strongly condemned the previous anti-China rally in Myeongdong, Seoul, saying that such activities were out of the scope of * and were "troublemaking" acts. Li Zaiming repeatedly urged relevant departments to actively study solutions. On the 19th, South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok issued an emergency instruction to the police for some "anti-China" gatherings, saying that if necessary, strong measures would be taken against individual "anti-China" gatherings.
In response to the anti-China rallies in parts of South Korea after the general election, the Chinese Embassy in South Korea said in July this year that in recent years, South Korea has successfully held the presidential election, and China congratulated it, wishing South Korea to stability, development and prosperity. China and South Korea's exchanges and cooperation in various fields are also increasing, which is in line with the common interests of the two peoples. Unfortunately, the individual political forces of South Korea have falsified the so-called "Chinese interference in the general election of South Korea", accused China of blackmailing, and China firmly opposed.
Source:China's Embassy in South Korea, Global Network
Editor: Wang Cong