Following the lead of Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon, efforts to break the ice between South Korea and Japan are ongoing.
This time, South Korean lawmakers are leaving for Tokyo later this week to seek for a breakthrough with their Japanese counterparts.
Our Kim Mok-yeon has this report.
To try and ease the tensions, a group of 50 South Korean lawmakers will head to Japan on Friday.
In Tokyo, they'll be attending an annual joint conference of the South Korea-Japan Parliamentarians' Union, a group that promotes friendly ties between the two countries.
"Under discussion will be a wide range of issues, such as the end of the two countries' military intel-sharing pact... and the decision by both sides to revoke the other's trusted trade partner status."
In a related move, Korea's National Assembly speaker Moon Hee-sang will also visit Japan on November 4th, to attend a meeting of parliamentary speakers from the G20 countries.
He was invited by the Japanese House of Councilors President Akiko Santo, who said he wants to hear Moon's thoughts about how to repair the strained relationship between Seoul and Tokyo.
But according to NHK, it's still undecided whether Santo will meet Moon one on one, though he will do so with other leaders.
It's also far from clear whether there'll be progress in either of these meetings,... Japan holding firm to its view that issues of compensation for the Korean victims of Japan's colonial rule were all settled by a 1965 treaty.
Its Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said again Tuesday that the treaty is the foundation of bilateral relations.
Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News.