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.

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,

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.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency dubbed Ishiba "a dove" on the matter of Japan's ties with South Korea, citing past comments that questioned whether Japan had done enough to redress its role in World War Two that continues to affect ties with regional neighbours.

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,