South Korea to keep Fukushima seafood ban despite thaw with Japan

Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster led numerous countries to restrict Japanese food imports [File: Kyodo/ via Reuters]

South Korea has ruled out lifting a ban on Japanese seafood imports from the area around the Fukushima nuclear plant despite warming relations between Seoul and Tokyo.

Seafood imports from near the tsunami-stricken plant will “never come into” South Korea due to health concerns related to leaked radiation, the administration of President Yoon Seok-yeol said on Thursday.