A large supermarket in Seoul has a banner boycotting Japanese goods. What is the situation like in other seafood markets?

Recently, the Japanese government’s decision to discharge Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the sea has triggered global controversy. Discharging nuclear wastewater into the sea will have a huge impact on the environment. Many countries have expressed opposition. A large supermarket in Seoul, South Korea, has announced a boycott. There are slogans on the goods, but the scene at the largest seafood wholesale market in Seoul is deserted. At present, the market has increased the frequency of testing of radioactive substances to ensure the safety of aquatic products.

Retailers such as large supermarkets and department stores in South Korea stated that they have stopped selling seafood products produced in Japan since 2011 and have no plans to change in the future.

South Korean people have a high level of rejection of seafood products produced in Japan. It can be seen that the Japanese government’s decision this time made the Korean people very angry. South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced that it plans to strengthen origin traceability supervision of Japanese seafood and will increase law enforcement.

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Korean netizens: Japan is an "unstoppable lunatic"

Although Japan said it would only start discharging sewage into the sea two years later, this move has already detonated Korean public opinion. On major forums and social media in South Korea, discussions about Japan’s nuclear wastewater discharge plan have “raised high”.

What South Korean netizens are most concerned about are the threats that their own living environment and food safety may face. Many netizens said, "Don't you consider the environment? That's crazy!" and "What about our drinking water and marine life?"

According to Korean media reports, after Japan's nuclear wastewater entered the sea, the contaminated seawater was Under the influence of ocean currents, it will reach Jeju Island in 200 days and the west coast of South Korea in 400 days. This has exacerbated the panic of the Korean people to a certain extent.

Lee Minji (pseudonym), a graduate student at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, told Phoenix Weekly: "The ecosystem is a cyclic system. The nuclear wastewater discharged by Japan will eventually flow back to us. And South Korea is relatively close to Japan. , the risk is even greater.”

Some Koreans even believe that the discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea is a more serious crisis than the new coronavirus epidemic.