{"id":9996,"date":"2021-01-19T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3118174\/will-more-japanese-firms-exit-south-korea-tensions-rise-after"},"modified":"2021-01-19T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:00:06","slug":"will-more-japanese-firms-exit-south-korea-as-tensions-rise-after-comfort-women-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/will-more-japanese-firms-exit-south-korea-as-tensions-rise-after-comfort-women-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Will more Japanese firms exit South Korea as tensions rise after \u2018comfort women\u2019 ruling?"},"content":{"rendered":"Car manufacturers, clothing firms and electronics makers \u2013 including heavyweights Nissan and Olympus \u2013 were among the 45 Japanese companies that withdrew from the South Korean market in the financial year ending March last year, with analysts anticipating an increase in this figure amid the impact of Covid-19 and deteriorating relations between Tokyo and Seoul.Camera giant Olympus pulled out of South Korea in June last year, while carmaker Nissan left in December. While they were among the\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3118174\/will-more-japanese-firms-exit-south-korea-tensions-rise-after\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car manufacturers, clothing firms and electronics makers \u2013 including heavyweights Nissan and Olympus \u2013 were among the 45 Japanese companies that withdrew from the South Korean market in the financial year ending March last year, with analysts anticipat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9997,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996\/revisions\/9997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}