https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-japan-laborers-minister/south-korea-says-japan-flatly-rejects-meeting-over-trade-row-idUSKCN1UJ1YB

South Korea's deputy trade minister Kim Seung-ho said on Wednesday he had asked a senior Japanese official for a face-to-face meeting on a trade row between Tokyo and Seoul but he had been flatly turned down.