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There go my swimming on Korea's east side plans for this year.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 1 year ago

I absolutely agree that there was a massive overreaction from it.

That said, there was also a ton of face-saving on Japan's side as well that manifested in a lot of misinformation coming from them. Essentially, there was a distinct lack of transparency about the scope of the problem, so neighboring countries were justifiably unhappy with how Japan handled things.