South and North Korea have agreed to hold another round of talks on February first to discuss ways to develop the inter-Korean Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea.

Kim Young-tak, chief South Korean delegate to the talks in Gaeseong, said the two sides agreed to the working-level talks just before the South Korean delegation left Gaeseong on Thursday morning.

The two Koreas met from Friday evening until the early morning hours Thursday to discuss the results of their joint survey of Chinese and Vietnamese industrial parks. They failed, however, to narrow differences of opinion in regards to operations at the Gaeseong park.

The South had proposed as agendas for another working-level meeting the issues of cross-border passage, communications, and customs clearance as well as the matter of accommodations for North Korean workers at the Gaeseong business park.

The North, on the other hand, sought to include its call to raise the wages of North Korean workers at the industrial complex in the agenda for the working-level meeting.