SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold a meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit which will be hosted by Laos next week, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing Yoon's office.

Tokyo-based staffing startup Lapras has partnered with Wanted Lab, a major South Korean recruitment company, to start a business that introduces South Korean engineers to Japanese companies. Lapras has raised 400 million yen ($2.8 million) from Wanted's Japanese subsidiary and others.

President Yoon Suk Yeol and new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba have been arranging to have their first in-person meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos,

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol held his first telephone call with Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday and agreed a united response together with the United States is needed to counter North Korea's threats, his office said.