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South Korea’s Yoon renews hopes for improved ties with Japan

South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, center, holds a banner during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The banner reads "South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's humiliation diplomacy." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Protesters march toward the Japanese Embassy during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The banner reads "Suspend South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's South Korea-Japan agreement." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Protesters shout slogans during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Yang Geum-deok, a South Korean victim of Japan's wartime forced labor, arrives at a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The banner reads "South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's humiliation diplomacy." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Protesters tear a banner with the Japanese rising sun flag during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Protesters tear a banner with the Japanese rising-sun flag during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, center, holds a banner during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The banner reads "South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's humiliation diplomacy." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Protesters march toward the Japanese Embassy during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The banner reads "Suspend South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's South Korea-Japan agreement." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Protesters shout slogans during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Yang Geum-deok, a South Korean victim of Japan's wartime forced labor, arrives at a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The banner reads "South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's humiliation diplomacy." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Protesters tear a banner with the Japanese rising sun flag during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Protesters tear a banner with the Japanese rising-sun flag during a rally against the South Korean government's move to improve relations with Japan, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. South Korea's president on Wednesday called Japan "a partner that shares the same universal values" and renewed hopes to repair ties frayed over Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol, center left, and his wife Kim Keon Hee, center right, give three cheers during a ceremony of the 104th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement Day against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

South Koreans give three cheers for the country during a ceremony to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Koreans give three cheers for the country during a ceremony to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Koreans give three cheers for the country as they march during a ceremony to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Koreans wave national flags as they march during a ceremony to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Koreans wave national flags during a ceremony to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol, center left, and his wife Kim Keon Hee, center right, give three cheers during a ceremony of the 104th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement Day against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a ceremony of the 104th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement Day against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a ceremony of the 104th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement Day against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a ceremony of the 104th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement Day against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

South Korea’s Yoon renews hopes for improved ties with Japan