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Japan and South Korea should work together to save the flagging efforts to seek tighter economic integration in Asia, where key players seem to lack a common blueprint for the region's future and push for their own separate agenda, veteran journalists from South Korea told a recent symposium in Tokyo.
As part of such efforts, the two countries need to reopen the mothballed talks for a bilateral free trade agreement -- even though South Korea is now preoccupied with the FTA negotiations with the United States, they told the Feb. 9 event.