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Referring to another result, we could also see that 61 percent of respondents

acknowledged that the boycott is a reasonable yet necessary event, and their

reasons to this were all similar - looking back from the historical records on

Japanese colonization in Korea, it is reasonable to held such events to stop Korea

and our people to be treated incongruously. The 6 percent who said no had shown

unspecified reasons, and the rest who stayed neutral were those who were not sure

of the events. Through the results, we referred that most of the people were

considering the boycott necessary in hope to alter Japan’s objectionable behavior.

The last result where we asked whether the respondents of the survey were

taking part in the boycott themselves, most of them seemed to try their best while

20 percent of them said no. 20 percent is not a small number. This shows that

although many people are considering boycotting the best solution to alter the

situation of being mistreated, there are still some desires to purchase products of

their possessions, and this cannot be forced.

Also, to simply summarize the postwar situation of the boycott, Japan needed

to compensate the victims of the past but Japan tried to avoid and started to

restrict the sharing of products in Korea. The relationship of the two countries

started to be at stake, and the conflicts led to Korea citizens boycotting on Japanese

goods. This action as mentioned before, it was a citizen movement, not obliged by

the government. However, as the movement got larger, it grew up to affect the

political landscape of Korea. Also, if we relate to the events that followed after the

boycott, we can see that the GSOMIA contract was revoked, and Korea was

removed from the white list of Japan. These two main events pinpoint the political

impacts in Korea’s political landscape due to the boycott.

5. CONCLUSION

The two contracts - GSOMIA and Japan’s white list - played the role as a

promise between the two countries to sustain their rapprochement, and Japan’s

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