I believe events like the Busan Japan Culture Festival should never be held

The current causes of South Korea's low birth rate and economic decline are the viral promotion of Japanese travel and culture, and the outflow of population to Japan.
Recently, Korea has been continuously and actively promoting Japanese travel, studying abroad, employment, culture, and Japanese companies.
Conversely, only negative images regarding Korea are being broadcast, and we are becoming a colony of Japan once again by our own hands.
Look at what people in their 20s and 30s are saying on the internet; they unconditionally disparage anything related to Korea and unconditionally praise anything related to Japan.
Korean men are sent to the military under the pretext of defending the country, while Korean women continue to migrate to Japan, and Japanese men are infiltrating various Korean sectors; as a result, the domestic economy, regional economy, and local economies are dying, and even the birth rate is dropping.
Young Koreans today know more about Japanese geography and culture than their own, and they spread that knowledge as if it were a point of pride.
This is not what our independence activists fought to protect our country for. We are no different from being in a colonial state even now.
Japan has inflicted countless, indelible pains upon Korea through the forced mobilization of comfort women, Maruta human experimentation, the looting of cultural assets, the Kanto Massacre, and more.
Despite this, far from offering a proper apology, Japan continues to distort history and glorify militarism.
Instead, they use various overseas social media communities to smear Korea and Koreans to damage our image,
while simultaneously attempting to promote their own country by inserting it into Korean culture.
However, the more serious problem lies within Korean society itself.
While the number of foreign tourists visiting Korea increases every year, the number of Koreans traveling abroad—especially to Japan—is increasing at an even faster rate, causing the tourism balance deficit to grow.
On one hand, young Korean men are sacrificing their youth in the name of mandatory military service.
Yet, during the same period, the population is draining away through Japanese working holidays, employment, and travel, leading to a vicious cycle where the domestic economy weakens and the birth rate structurally declines.
I am not trying to blame anyone; I am simply deeply worried about this situation.
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