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Japanese and South Korean companies should increase technological as well as capital partnerships as they both face the challenges of globalization and China's rising power, the South Korean journalists told the Feb. 9 symposium.
South Korea, for its part, needs to make its parts and basic materials industries more competitive, or it will continue to incur huge trade deficits with Japan, they said.