SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Friday rejected Japan's call for third-party arbitration over a court ruling last year ordering Japanese companies to pay compensation for using South Korean forced labour during World War Two.
Japan had set Thursday as a deadline for South Korea to accept the proposal in a deepening feud over wartime forced labour, which has led to Tokyo imposing export curbs on high-tech materials to South Korea.
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