Seul, January 7th (Yonhap) – South Korea and Japan will hold high-level discussions during this week in Seul abut bilateral and regional economic issues, as South Korean officials informed last Wednesday.
In the meeting that will be held on Thursday, South Korea will be represented by its Vice-Ministry of economic affairs, Ahn Chong-ghee while his counterpart Yasumasa Nagamine, will lead Japan’s delegation.
A public officer of the Ministry of Foreing Affaires said, on condition of anonymity, that both nations will analyse current economic matters and will discuss how to cooperate face to their future relations.
One of the items of the meeting, the second one of this type since Park Geun-hye’s investiture as President of South Korea on February 2013, would be the massive Japan’s monetary easy, that South Korea perceive with preoccupation due to the fact that a weakness of the Yen make south korean products more expensive on foreing markets.
Japan, could reiterate it request that South Korea resume its imports of Japanese fisheries products, which imports are banned by eight Japanese prefectures nearby Fukushima, since September 2013.
