March 2nd week work arrangement
“The first step to open a new era of cooperation” “A huge step towards normalization of relations”
President Yoon Seok-yeol visited Japan on the 16th and had a summit meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The two leaders agreed to accelerate all-round cooperation by restoring various consultative bodies, including strategic dialogue between the two countries, and establishing a new economic security dialogue. They also agreed to restore shuttle diplomacy between the leaders. Japan’s Kyodo News reported that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering visiting Korea this summer at the earliest as a return visit to President Yoon’s visit to Japan. With this summit, South Korea-Japan relations have been put on the road to normalization after resolving conflicts that have lasted for as little as 4 years and as long as 12 years. However, contrary to the government’s expectation that “more than half of the water cups are full, and more will be filled according to Japan’s response” when the forced labor solution was announced 10 days ago, Prime Minister Kishida did not show any response at the Korea-Japan summit that day. The reactions of the ruling and opposition parties who watched the summit were also sharply mixed.
“Future-oriented grand victory decision” vs. “The president fell flat against Japan, violating even the separation of powers”
The power of the people said, “Spring has come to Korea-Japan relations. President Yoon Seok-yeol’s decision has opened a new era of common prosperity between Korea and Japan,” praised President Yoon’s summit achievements, while the Democratic Party criticized it as “a meeting where nothing was received and nothing was given.” Democratic Party Policy Committee Chairman Kim Seong-hwan came out at the party meeting with a picket of “Five Enemies of Forced Mobilization” comparing five people, including President Yoon and Minister of Foreign Affairs Park Jin, to the Eulsa Five Reds. He argued, “In front of Japan, President Yoon despised even the rule of law that he had emphasized himself,” and “this is the reason for impeachment.”
March 17 Donga Ilbo front page
Correspondent Jang Seung-yoon made a collage of photos and texts from related articles published in domestic daily newspapers.In a speech just before the opening of the stock market on the 13th, President Biden shouted “The US banking system is safe” to guarantee full deposits and tried to block the storm after the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) bankruptcy, but he could not calm down the fears of investors. On the 13th (local time), the stock prices of local small and medium-sized banks plummeted in the US New York Stock Exchange, and fears that additional banks will go bankrupt are not going away. According to Bloomberg, on the 13th and 14th, the market capitalization of global financial stocks evaporated by $465 billion (approximately 607 trillion won). It is interpreted that the shock of the closure of two banks, including SVB and Signature Bank, has not gone away, and the potential risk of US Treasuries, which was considered a representative safe asset, has become a reality. According to the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), as of the end of last year, unrealized book losses alone amounted to 620 billion dollars (approximately 810 trillion won) due to the sharp decline in US bond prices. As it is pointed out that the cause of this situation is the Fed’s repeated rate hikes that began in March of last year, it seems that the Fed’s move to raise interest rates will also be put on hold. Japan’s Nomura Securities and others predicted that the Fed would cut the base rate at the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting held on the 21st and 22nd. For the time being, volatility and uncertainty in the global financial world as a whole are also expected to increase.
Correspondent Jang Seung-yoon made a collage of photos and texts from related articles published in domestic daily newspapers.The 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) Korean baseball team was eliminated in the first round of the WBC three times in a row and received strong criticism such as ‘neighborhood baseball’ and ‘baseball in the well’. Korea lost 7-8 to Australia, which was rated one step below in this tournament, and suffered a crushing defeat to Japan 4-13, barely avoiding a cold game. They narrowly won 7-3, conceding 3 runs to the Czech Republic, which had a team composed mainly of players whose main job was not baseball.
On the 15th, a sympathetic analysis article was published on the sports side of the Donga Ilbo. To briefly introduce…
“The quality of Korean baseball has declined since 2004 when high school players started using wooden bats.. Japan and the US still use metal bats. Pitchers have a much better advantage as hitters use wooden bats with weak repelling power. As this process was repeated, Geopo disappeared in Korean baseball. Full Count, a Japanese baseball media, said after the match between Korea and Japan, “Since Korea used wooden bats in high school baseball, giant guns have disappeared and only small skills to win have increased. This also affects the pitchers, so that good pitchers do not come out. The article pointed out that most of the top pitchers in Korean professional baseball are foreign pitchers.
Correspondent Jang Seung-yoon made a collage of photos and texts from related articles published in domestic daily newspapers.Elling Halan (23) scored a hat-trick in the first half in the home game of the 2022-2023 season Champions League round of 16 second leg against Leipzig (Germany) on the 15th, scoring 5 goals and taking the lead in the team’s 7-0 victory. . Hollan, who scored 10 goals in 6 games in this tournament, quickly rose to the top scorer. Hollan is also the top scorer in the English Premier League (EPL) this season with 28 goals in 26 matches.
Haalan also broke the record for becoming the youngest player ever to score at least 30 goals in a game, extending his career tally to 33 goals in the tournament. Hollan is the third player to score 5 goals, the most in a Champions League match. I recorded it in 2014 when I was playing for (Ukraine).
After the match, Haalan told BT Sports that he laughed about his replacement, saying, “I told the manager, ‘I could have done a double hat trick’.” Guardiola said of the replacement of Haalan, “I thought his life would be boring if he achieved achievements at the age of 23.” “Now he has a goal.”
“Paris in Paris.., France turned into a garbage dump due to pension reform”
Photo = AP NewsisThe Macron administration is promoting a reform plan that will delay the retirement age from the current 62 to 64 by 2030, saying that pension reform can no longer be delayed in view of the aging population and fiscal deficit.
But as major French trade unions protest against the pension reform plan, the whole of France is turning into a dump. At least 7,000 tons of garbage have not been collected in Paris alone as unions in major industries such as transportation, logistics, and oil refining have all stopped, and even the garbage disposal workers’ unions have gone on strike every day. The Paris garbage disposal union decided on the 14th that “the strike will continue until at least the 20th”.
Photos of Earth released by North Korea’s ICBM
The Rodong Sinmun reports North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watching the launch of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the Pyongyang International Airport on the 16th with his daughter Kim Joo-ae, and the earth that appears to have been filmed from the newly launched Hwasong-17. Published a photo. Meanwhile, the Korea-US joint exercise ‘Freedom Shield’ (FS Freedom Shield), which started on the 13th, is being conducted for 11 consecutive days without distinction of day and night until the 23rd.
U.S.-Russia unveil video of drone crash over Black Sea
Photo = AP NewsisOn the 14th, a Russian Su-27 fighter jet and an American drone MQ-9 Reaper collided and crashed over the Black Sea. Russia claimed that there was no contact between the fighter jet and the drone, and as a refutation, the United States released a video of a collision between a Russian fighter jet and an American drone. In a video released by the US Army European Command, a Russian fighter Su-27 sprayed fuel twice as it approached an American drone MQ-9 over the Black Sea on the 14th.
Chun Doo-hwan’s grandson “Screen golf course at home in Yeonhui-dong, said to have no money”
photo = youtube captureJeon Woo-won (27), the grandson of former President Chun Doo-hwan, who died in 2021, said, “My family, who said they had no money, continues to receive black money from nowhere, and they are still eating well and living well.” Uploading the video to social network services (SNS) has been a hot issue for a week.
However, Mr. Jeon took a substance presumed to be a drug during a live broadcast and showed a gibberish appearance, and the live ended with the dispatch of the US police.
Sakhalin compatriots who returned to their homeland
Source: Donga
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