Park visits Japanese firm

President Park Geun-hye gives a congratulatory speech during the groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory of Toray Advanced Materials Korea, an affiliate of Japan’s Toray Industries, in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday. Park visited the Japanese firm despite rising concerns about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine and continual visits by Japanese lawmakers to the place honoring Japan’s war dead, including war criminals. / Joint press corps