Japan, South Korea to agree on resuming business travel

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TOKYO - Japan and South Korea plan to agree as early as this week on the resumption of business trips between the 2 countries, a measure the 2 governments halted in response to the novel coronavirus p

andemic, according to Japanese government sources.

The resumption of such trips may lead to an improvement in the 2 neighbors' relationship, which has sunk to historic lows over a string of South Korean court rulings ordering Japanese companies to pay compensation for enforcing the wartime labor of Koreans. Some 5.58 million South Koreans visited Japan in 2019, the second largest following around 9.59 million from China, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. Of the visitors from South Korea, some 310,000 traveled for business purposes.

 

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