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黃권한대행 오찬간담회..."위안부 합의 연속성 유지가 바람직" Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn - currently serving as the Acting President of this country - had lunch with the media today... Over Samgyetang - or ginseng chicken soup - he outlined his stance on some key policies set out by the currently suspended Park administration. Although he's been under pressure to change some deemed heavily controversial, his remarks today suggest he will stick by them. Kwon Jang-ho reports. Oh, and why ginseng chicken soup? There is a reason behind that, too. Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn held a lunch meeting with the press on Thursday, and took the opportunity to clarify his positions on a range of policy issues. He first touched on the issue of Seoul and Tokyo's controversial landmark deal on Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War Two. "It was an agreement that was reached by the two governments and I believe the right thing to do is to have continuity and maintain it." Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of the deal, which promised a fund worth 8-point-6 million U.S. dollars to help support the surviving victims of the wartime atrocity, as well as an apology from Prime Minister Abe to President Park Guen-hye. But due to outcry from victims who say they were not consulted on the agreement, there have been growing calls for it to be renegotiated or scrapped. Hwang stressed that terms of the agreement have already been carried out, and even if Korea wanted to renegotiate, Japan would be unlikely to accept. Hwang also talked about next year's deployment of the U.S. missile-defense system THAAD to Korea, another controversial policy introduced by the currently suspended President Park. The proposed deployment has strained relations with China, and opposition lawmakers have suggested it should be reassessed, but Hwang rejected the idea. "The THAAD missile defense system is directly connected to the lives and safety of the Korean people." Hwang also gave his support to the proposed state-authored history textbooks, another key Park adminstration policy. Concerns have been raised about the textbooks having too much state inteference, but Hwang said he hoped the books will provide students with good historical education. The lunch meeting took place at a restaurant specialising in Samgyetang, a traditional Korean chicken broth, in a show of support for the country's poultry industry which has been hit hard by an outbreak of bird flu. The South Korean government has culled some 28 million poultry birds, decimating meat and egg supplies and causing prices to soar. Kwon Jang-Ho, Arirang News. Visit ‘Arirang News’ Official Pages Facebook(NEWS): http://www.facebook.com/newsarirang Homepage: http://www.arirang.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arirangtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/arirangworld Instagram: http://instagram.com/arirangworld