Over 100,000 people in South Korea have, as of Monday, signed a petition against Japan's planned discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
The signature campaign was organized by the country's main opposition party, the Democratic Party of South Korea, on Friday.
In just three days, the campaign gathered huge momentum, leading to the petition garnering 100,000 signatures as of Monday.
The campaign came after a team of South Korean experts concluded a two-day trip to Fukushima to investigate health safety concerns surrounding the wastewater discharge agenda.
The Democratic Party of South Korea opposed the team's visit, saying it could end up giving its blessing to the planned release of contaminated water.
A recent survey also shows that the general public in South Korea does not favor Japan's discharge of Fukushima's nuclear wastewater.
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Its unlikely to be a real issue so long as the release is dispersed gradually. Coal runoff into rivers is a greater source of radiation than this, of which Seoul itself is heavily affected. Interesting that CGTN is even reporting on this tbh
Doesn't Korea (ROK) and China have a decent relationship, if nothing else just based on the fact that their boomers both hate Japan with a fiery passion. I obviously don't know who CGTN is primarily written for, but I've definitely seen some anti-japanese sentiment from Korean tabloids getting picked up by chinese media accounts on twitter.