>>213171812 (OP)>still make stuff?I think there's still a demand for chemicals to make electronics.
Its accuracy can be used to make military weapons.
In 2019, for example, South Korea was found to have smuggled Japanese goods to other countries.
For this reason, Japan downgraded Korea's favorable export system equivalent to the G7.
This led to massive protests in South Korea, and the South Korean government led the No Japan Campaign.
However, thanks to this, North Korea's missile tests were stopped and Iran's nuclear development was restrained.
In 2023, however, under pressure from the United States, Japan resumed its favorable export system to South Korea.