https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-japan-laborers/south-korea-asks-japan-not-to-drop-it-from-smooth-trade-list-idUSKCN1UJ04F

South Korea protested on Wednesday against a Japanese plan to remove it from a Japanese list of countries that face minimum trade restrictions, saying it would undermine their decades-old economic and security cooperation and threaten free trade.