South Korean media have reported that the Chinese ambassador may have shown his dissatisfaction with the foreign policy of the Yoon Seong-yeol administration. Lee Jae-myeong, president of South Korea's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Korea, on the evening of the 8th.

Lee stated that "concerns of neighboring countries are increasing" over the plan to dilute the treated water accumulated at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to a concentration below the standard and release it into the sea.