South Korea will drop a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against Japan as Tokyo agreed to lift its export curbs on high-tech materials to South Korea, the South Korean trade ministry said on Thursday.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol arrived in Japan for a visit on Thursday, days after South Korea announced a plan to end a row with Japan over wartime forced labor.
(Cover: Gantry cranes and containers at a shipping terminal in Yokohama, Japan, July 18, 2022. /CFP)