Chinese school kids join South Korean boycott over missile shield row
Videos go viral on the internet showing youngsters vowing not to buy South Korean snacks and chanting during teacher-led rallies at schools
Chinese consumers’ boycott of South Korean goods and businesses over the deployment of a missile defence shield has led to a range of protests including children attending school rallies and refusing to buy Korean snacks plus a Korean barbecue restaurant chain renaming itself.
Two videos of Chinese primary school pupils vowing to wean themselves off Korean snacks at the command of their teachers have gone viral on the internet in China.
Hundreds of children were seen gathered in a school hall and chanting anti-South Korean slogans at one unnamed campus.
The chanting particularly targeted the South Korean retail giant Lotte, which allocated land for the military to deploy the US-developed missile system.
Seoul says missile shield is a defence against North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, but China’s government says it poses a threat to the nation’s security.