(MENAFN- QNA) South Korea and Japan are set to hold another meeting over the issue of Tokyo's bid to list its wartime industrial facilities as UNESCO world heritage sites.
Following their initial meeting in Tokyo on May 22, the two sides on Tuesday will meet in Seoul to discuss whether Japan will acknowledge in the description of some of its sites that Koreans were forced to work there during Japanese colonial rule of Korea, Korea's (KBS WORLD) website reported.
South Korea maintains that of the 23 19th-century industrial sites for which Japan is seeking to win UNESCO's recognition, seven should be excluded as they were locations where some 57-thousand Koreans were forced to work.
But if Japan presses ahead with the listing, South Korea says Tokyo should clarify their historic background in documentation.
The bilateral meeting will be led by South Korean ambassador for cultural and UNESCO affairs Choi Jong-moon and Jun Shimmi, director-general for cultural affairs at the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry.
The World Heritage Committee will vote on the bid at a meeting in Bonn, Germany on June 28.
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