Rising tension between Japan and South Korea.

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Considering the hatred between the two nations, it's amazing there is even a Japanese ambassador in Seoul. In fact, the only positive influence of Japan in South Korea is the culture, but that fact isn't saying much. I think the reason for the negative situation is the fact Japan has not paid Korea for damages related to World War II and the colonial era.
 
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President Park is more neutral than his male predecessor who angered the Japanese by the controversial visit. There was a deal on the wartime comfort women signed last year and the Japan-Korea relations may be warming up gradually after a period of hostilities. The $1 million fund was established to compensate for former comfort women. Japan has always maintained that the colonial issue was settled by its development aid to Korea. The diplomatic situation has worsened after South Korea was recognised as a developed country in the 2000s that cannot be a recipient of Japan's ODA. Japan provided South Korea with $300 million grant in economic aid and $200 million in loans together with $300 million in loans in 1965. But on a personal level, you should avoid Korean nationals, if you're of Japanese descent.

The South Korean government demanded a total of 364 million dollars in compensation for the 1.03 million Koreans conscripted into the workforce and the military during the colonial period,[13] at a rate of 200 dollars per survivor, 1,650 dollars per death and 2,000 dollars per injured person.[14] South Korea agreed to demand no further compensation, either at the government or individual level, after receiving $800 million in grants and soft loans from Japan as compensation for its 1910–45 colonial rule in the treaty.[12]

However, the South Korean government used most of the grants for economic development,[15] failing to provide adequate compensation to victims by paying only 300,000 won per death in compensating victims of forced labor between 1975 and 1977.[14] Instead, the government spent most of the money establishing social infrastructures, founding POSCO, building Gyeongbu Expressway and the Soyang Dam with the technology transfer from Japanese companies.[16] This investment was named Miracle on the Han River in South Korea.
 
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