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Editorial
Stronger Stance to Protect
from Radioactive Goods
ESTABLISHED1954
Publishedmonthlyexcepttheschoolholidaysbyand
for students of Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies, TheArgus, the oldest campus English
newspaperinKorea,pursuesthehigheststandardof
I
n this Chuseok holiday, some changes in ancestral rites table may have been
campusjournalismandacademism.
noticeable to many; seafood was nowhere to be seen. Indeed, after the 2011
meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, sales in products
that may have been exposed to radiation, especially fish, have decreased greatly in
?PresidentandPublisher
Dr.ParkChul
Korea. The government has been slow to take actions and thus the radiation scare
?ExecutiveEditor
Prof.SungKyung-jun
hascontinuedtogrow.
Back in March 2011, a hurricane, Tohoku, hit Fukushima in Japan; a nuclear
?Editor-in-Chief
JoHe-rim(ELG-3)
powerplantlostitsabilitytocooltheplantandleakedradioactivematerialintothe
?EditorialConsultants JeonSeong-jin(PH-4)
ocean.Twoyearsaftertheaccident,300metrictonsofheavilycontaminatedwater
wasfoundtobeleakingfromtheplant¡¯sstoragetank.Theincidentissaidtobethe
KimSu-young(T-4)
secondmosthazardouseventsincetheChernobyldisasterof1986inUkraine.
Adjacentcountries,ChinaandTaiwan,werefasttobanimportsoffish,dairy,and
?PlanningDirector
LeeYeong-eun(ELG-4)
vegetable products from Japan in 2011. Complaints and worries on radioactive-
ChaEon-jo(EIT2-4)
exposed products arose in Korea. However, it is only this September that the
WooHae-chung(CH-3)
government banned the imports of all fisheries from Fukushima and seven other
nearbyregions.
?AssociateEditor
KimMin-jeong(H-2)
The radiation scare did not calm down. Voices arose that already around 8,000
?OverseasCorrespondent ParkJi-yeon(DIS-2)
tons of imports have made it to Korea since 2011. No restrictions or guidelines
control the importation of processed goods from fisheries and vegetable products.
?GuestReporter
MaRia(ELG-2)
The ¡®thorough¡¯ radioactivity check of the imported goods that Ministry of Food
?CopyReaders
Prof.SungKyung-jun
and Drug Safety mentions is only enough to check the level of cesium and iodine,
leaving out others such as strontium and plutonium. Given this situation, Japan is
Prof.BrandonWalcutt
now pressuring Korea to lift the import ban and demanding for an ¡®acceptable¡¯
explanation.TheyalsoplantofileacomplaintwiththeWorldTradeOrganization.
Prof.MichaelHeinz
Theslowandweakmanagementofthegovernmenthaslostthetrustofthepeople.
Totakecontrolofthischaoticsituation,itisimportantthatthegovernment provide
clear explanation of the situation to help the understanding of the citizens and
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hold a strong stance against Japan; though the frayed diplomatic relationship may
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be worrisome. This problem is related to the whole future of the nation¡¯s health
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and protecting people¡¯s basic human rights, which includes the provision of the
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JoHe-rim
Editor-in-Chief

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