For the first time in 11 years, the number of Japanese people who say their impression of South Korea is “good” is the highest, but the number of Koreans is “decreasing”

In South Korea, with the inauguration of the Yun Seo-gyul administration, Japan-South Korea relations are rapidly improving, and the number of Japanese who have a favorable impression of South Korea has reached its highest level in 11 years.
Understood. On the other hand, the number of Koreans who have a favorable impression of Japan has decreased slightly. On the 8th and 9th of this month, South Korea's East Asia Institute (EAI) and Japan's Genron NPO, private research institutes in both Japan and South Korea, will hold
The results of the ``11th Japanese Korean People's Favorability Perception Survey'' were announced on the 12th, based on a survey of 1,000 adults.
Among the Japanese who participated in the survey, 37.4% answered that their impression of South Korea was "good," which was the same as last year's survey (30%).
.4%) rose by 7.0%. This is higher than the 29.1% recorded in 2016, which was the highest since the survey began in 2013.
Additionally, 32.8% of Japanese respondents answered negatively that their impression of South Korea was "unfavorable," up from 40.3% last year.
and decreased. The remaining respondents answered "Neither". On the other hand, the percentage of Koreans who answered that their impression of Japan was "good" was 28.9%, a slight decrease from 30.6% last year.
The percentage of positive responses increased slightly from 52.8% to 53.3%. The East Asian Institute explains the reason for the difference in trends in favorability ratings between the two countries: ``Among the variables that determine the impression of the other country are the relationships between the two governments.
``They seem to be dissatisfied with the attitudes of both the Korean and Japanese governments, given that South Koreans do not have a high level of support for a solution to the problem of conscripted labor.''
In fact, in this survey, 34.8% of Japanese people positively evaluated the Korean government's attitude toward improving Japan-Korea relations, but only 21.7% of Koreans responded positively.
There is. The rate of positive responses regarding the Japanese government's attitude was 34.5% of Japanese respondents, but only 15.0% of Korean respondents.
However, the people of both countries say, ``I feel that Japan-Korea relations are improving this year.''
I answered. The percentage of South Koreans who answered that "current Korea-Japan relations are bad" decreased sharply from 64.6% last year to 42.0% this year, and the percentage who answered that they were "good" rose from 4.9% to 12.7%.
rose. Additionally, the percentage of Japanese respondents who answered "poor" decreased from 39.8% to 21.2%, and the percentage who answered "good" increased from 13.7% to 29.0%.
Regarding the issue of ``release of radioactively treated water'' from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean, 68.7% of Koreans answered that ``it should not be released.''
Only 7% of respondents answered.