South Korea and Japan agreed Friday to cooperate in developing the standards for mobile communications and communication system technology and in creating an integrated telecommunication environment for the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup soccer finals.

The agreement was reached at a meeting between South Korea's
Vice Information and Communications Minister Kim Tong-sun and his Japanese counterpart Koji Hamada held at the former's office.

In the meeting, the two sides also checked and reviewed the progress made so far in the Korea-Japan IT (information technology) Initiative agreed on at the Korea-Japan summit held last October.

Under the agreement, the two countries will also build a joint research and development system on the fourth-generation mobile
communication mode.

They will also cooperate in making a policy of cooperation in
telecommunications, building international infrastructure for
electronic signing and verification, launching a wide-band network
and verifying an information superhighway infrastructure.