A woman checks her phone in front of a panel outside the flagship store of Japanese fashion house Uniqlo at Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay shopping district May 9, 2013. — Reuters pic
The latest example is an advert for Uniqlo fleeces showing elderly fashion celebrity Iris Apfel chatting with designer Kheris Rogers, 85 years her junior. That would put the moment as 1939, towards the end of Japan’s brutal colonial rule over the Korean peninsula, where the period is still bitterly resented, and some South Koreans reacted furiously.
Seoul and Tokyo are currently locked in a bitter trade and diplomatic row stemming from historical disputes, and South Korean consumers have mounted boycotts of Japanese products.
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