The head of a major South Korean cosmetics firm resigned Sunday after facing heavy backlash for forcing his staff to watch a
YouTube video praising
Japan during a raging trade war between the two nations.
The clip, played at a monthly meeting of some 700 employees of Kolmar Korea last week, slams President Moon Jae-in's response to Japan's trade regulations and praises Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe for "not punching Moon in the face".
The video also refers to Venezuela's crippling
economy, where "women are going into prostitution for mere seven dollars", and adds that
South Korea is not far from meeting a similar fate.