This year, the National Assembly member Korea-Japan match will be held. Members of the ruling and opposition parties will visit Japan for three days and two nights from the 12th to the 14th of next month to attend the Korea-Japan friendly soccer tournament.
According to the politicians on the 22nd, the Korea-Japan Football Association will leave Korea on May 12th, play a game at Yokohama International Stadium in Japan on the 13th, and return on the 14th. Yokohama Stadium was the site of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup final.
As of the previous day (21st), in the power of the people, including Kim Hak-yong (4th term), Lee Heon-seung, Cho Hae-jin (3rd term), Kim Seok-ki, Song Seok-joon (re-election), Kang Dae-sik, It was reported that 17 members of the National Assembly, including Kim Seon-gyo, Kim Seung-soo, Kim Hyeong-dong, Park Hyeong-soo, Bae Jun-young, Bae Hyun-jin, Lee Yong, Lee Ju-hwan, Jeong Dong-man, and Hwang Bo-seung-hee (first choice), expressed their intention to attend.
After the Korea-Japan summit last month, the opposition party launched an offensive of ‘pro-Japanese and humiliating diplomacy’, and recently, as Japan stipulates that ‘Dokdo is Japan’s own territory’ in the diplomatic blue book, the relationship between the two countries is in an atmosphere of strain again. However, since it is a return to the tournament held in Korea last November, and it is a friendly match, it seems that a large number of lawmakers are attending without a big political burden.
However, it is said that the Democratic Party is in a difficult mood to attend the soccer tournament, as suspicions of money envelopes at the party convention arose and some lawmakers visited Fukushima earlier this month to protest.
A member of the Democratic Party of the Korea-Japan Football Association said in a phone call with News 1, “We are still recruiting attendees,” and “we are planning to discuss over time as we still have time.”
In the Democratic Party, on November 26 last year, at the World Cup Stadium in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Ho-jung Yun (4th), Young-jin Kim, Seong-gon Wi, Byung-do Han (re-elected), Byeong-deok Min, Hyun-young Shin, Su-jin Lee (proportional), Oh-gyeong Lim, Jun-ho Cheon (first-term) Members of Parliament and others attended.
The last tournament was held four years after the 2018 soccer tournament in Tokyo, Japan. At that time, Korea won 5-3 in a game that lasted 30 minutes in each half.
Source: Donga
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