Brussels / Seoul, 27/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - After two days of technical talks that once again came to nothing, on Tuesday in Seoul, the Union and South Korea agreed to make a last attempt to settle their dispute over shipbuilding during a higher level session scheduled for mid-September in Brussels - just two weeks before the deadline that the Fifteen had set themselves for calling for arbitration from Geneva on the trading practices of Korean shipbuilders. During the consultation, the two parties could not bring their positions any closer, the European delegation in Seoul sums up in a press release published on Tuesday. Their Korean discussion partners insist it is impossible for them to agree to a price rise for their ships, the EU sometimes calling for a rise as high as 20%, given that the world market is in slowdown. "I do not believe the Union really wants to find a solution", said one Korean negotiator, adding "they seem to prefer to take the matter to the World Trade Organisation (WTO)".