Lotte Tour Development said on the 18th that the 58th Korea-Japan and Japan-Korea Cooperation Committee joint meeting will be held at the Jeju Dream Tower Integrated Resort on the 21st-22nd.
The Korea-Japan Cooperation Committee, whose chair is Kim Ki-byung, the chair of Lotte Tour Development, is a private organization established in 1969 by President Park Chung-hee. To promote people-to-people exchanges and resolve pending issues between the two countries, it has alternated hosting joint meetings in the capitals of both countries, including Seoul and Tokyo.
Attending the 58th meeting will be about 70 guests, including Japan-Korea Cooperation Committee Chair Aso Taro, vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japanese Ambassador Mizushima Koichi, Jeju Gov. Oh Young-hun, former Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minister Park Jin, and Korea-Japan Cooperation Committee Chair Lee Dae-soon, as well as government officials from both countries, committee Commissioners, and related corporations representatives.
The joint meeting's common agenda is set as "redefining and deriving measures for a new Korea-Japan era." For the political agenda, a lecture is scheduled by Korea's former Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minister Park Jin and Japan's National Security Secretariat Director-General Okano Masataka on cooperation between Korea and Japan to ease global tensions.
For the economic agenda, lectures will be given by Korea's former Minister of Information and Communication Jin Dae-je and Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science and Economics Professor Fukagawa Yukiko on "competition and cooperation between Korea and Japan in the economy and science toward the future."
Chair Kim said, "As this year marks the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan, it is especially meaningful to hold the Korea-Japan Cooperation Committee joint meeting in Jeju, a global tourism city representing Korea," adding, "I hope this meeting will serve as an opportunity to further strengthen understanding, cooperation, and trust between Korea and Japan in the future."