PHOTOS Multiple anti-Japan protests sweep downtown Seoul

Members of the Korean Mart Labor Union ― under the Korean Federation of Service Workers' Union ― left their workplace, Lotte Mart next to Seoul Station, Wednesday morning, to back the “Boycott Japan” movement. They said they will not help customers find Japanese products in the supermarket and at other vendors in the Lotte Outlets shopping mall connected to the station. The nationwide movement boycotting Japanese products stems from the intensifying Korea-Japan trade war that started earlier this month. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Members of the Korean Mart Labor Union place "NO: Boycott Japan" posters on their anti-Japan campaign banner outside Lotte Mart at Seoul Station that shows Japanese products and stores inside Lotte Outlets. The targeted products and stores include S&B Golden Curry, Canon cameras, Sony Playstation, Rinnai electric stoves, Gatsby hair sprays, Donga Otsuka canned beverages, Japanese canned beers, MUJI, UNIQLO and ABC Mart. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

The "NO: Boycott Japan" poster on a vending machine in front of Lotte Mart at Seoul Station that sells the Japanese beverage Pocari Sweat. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Members of the Korean Mart Labor Union stage an anti-Japan protest in front of Lotte Mart at Seoul Station, Wednesday. Their placards read, "We don't guide customers to Japanese products nor sell them" and "Na Kyung-won, Hwang Kyo-ahn are banned," under caricatures of Hwang, Na and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The headband on Hwang, left, chairman of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, reads "Japanese raider to Korea," the one on Na, right, the party floor leader, says "Abe's advocate" while the one on Abe states "invasion, ambition." Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Delivery union members in front of the old Japanese Embassy building in Jongno District, Seoul, indicate they will not deliver UNIQLO products. The workers joined the nationwide movement boycotting Japanese products that stems from the intensifying Korea-Japan trade war that started earlier this month. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

The delivery workers raise a banner that reads: "We condemn economic revenge from the Abe government that doesn't regret its wrongdoing from the past." Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Another group of anti-Japan activists protest in front of the old Japanese Embassy building, Wednesday. Members of Justice for the Comfort Women condemn the Abe administration for not admitting to the sex slavery forced on Asian women, including Koreans, by Japanese soldiers during World War II and not helping the Korean victims re-attain their human rights. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Members of Justice for the Comfort Women protest next to a bronze statue of a Korean girl symbolizing "comfort women." The statue, erected in 2011 by the civic organization, is the first of a series built around the world. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk