- Title: File footage of South Korean President Park Geun-hye
- Date: 5th January 2017
- Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE - AUGUST 12, 2015) (REUTERS) SOUTH KOREAN CIVIC GROUP MEMBERS GATHERING IN FRONT OF JAPANESE EMBASSY IN SEOUL FOR WEEKLY ANTI-JAPAN RALLY SOUTH KOREAN FORMER COMFORT WOMEN, INCLUDING 89-YEAR-OLD KIM BOK-DONG (LEFT) AND 87-YEAR-OLD GIL WON-OK (CENTRE) AND 87-YEAR-OLD LEE YONG-SOO (RIGHT), SITTING DURING RALLY BRONZE STATUE OF GIRL SYMBOLISING COMFORT WOMEN ISSUE SURROUNDED BY SOUTH KOREAN CIVIC GROUP MEMBERS SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE - NOVEMBER 2, 2015) (REUTERS) JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE, JAPANESE DELEGATION, PARK AND SOUTH KOREAN OFFICIALS SITTING DURING MEETING ABE SPEAKING PARK SPEAKING AS SOUTH KOREAN OFFICIALS INCLUDING SOUTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER YUN BYUNG-SE (FAR RIGHT) AND THEN SOUTH KOREAN MINISTER OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND ENERGY, YOON SANG-JICK (FOURTH FROM RIGHT) SITTING PARK SPEAKING MEETING IN PROGRESS In 2015, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Park held their first formal bilateral talks since taking office and the following month Japan and South Korea reached a landmark agreement to resolve their long-running dispute over women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels. Relations between the two countries were previously frosty, frayed by a territorial row over a disputed island and by the legacy of Japan's 1910-1945 colonisation of the Korean peninsula.
- Embargoed: 20th January 2017 02:29
- Keywords: South Korea president Park Geun-hye political scandal impeachment
- Location: SEOUL, YANGGU, GANGWON PROVINCE, ANSAN, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA/ OFF COAST OF SOUTH KOREA / PYONGYANG, CHOLSAN COUNTY, NORTH PYONGAN PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA
- City: SEOUL, YANGGU, GANGWON PROVINCE, ANSAN, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA/ OFF COAST OF SOUTH KOREA / PYONGYANG, CHOLSAN COUNTY, NORTH PYONGAN PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA00I5XSZUBP
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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