Japan and South Korea agreed on May 2 to resume finance ministers’ talks that had been stalled for seven years, in the latest sign of thawing ties between the two nations strained by wartime disputes.
South Korean Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho and his Japanese counterpart, Shunichi Suzuki, met on the sidelines of the annual Asian Development Bank (ADB) summit in the South Korean city of Incheon.
The two ministers agreed to hold the meeting “at an appropriate time this year,” Yonhap News Agency reported. The financial dialogue between South Korean and Japanese ministers was last held in 2016.
“[As the two countries] consider free trade and market system to be the key of their economic management, there are many areas in which the two governments and the private sectors can join forces,” Choo said….