Japan's Uniqlo pulls ad after South Korean fury

Japanese retail giant Uniqlo has pulled a commercial featuring a 98-year-old US fashion figure from South Korean screens, it said Monday after it was accused of whitewashing colonial history.

The last line has the white-haired Apfel, asked how she used to dress as a teenager, innocuously responding:"Oh my God. I can't remember that far back." "A nation that forgets history has no future. We can't forget what happened 80 years ago that Uniqlo made fun of," commented one internet user on Naver, the country's largest portal.

Uniqlo -- which has 186 stores in South Korea -- has itself been one of the highest-profile targets, while Japanese carmakers' sales dropped nearly 60 percent year-on-year in September.

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