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A group of 20 local activists said Monday they have started a hunger strike to oppose the South Korea-US free trade talks underway here, adding about 1,000 more people will join them later this month.
A demonstration against the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) planned by the Korean Alliance against the Korea-US FTA (KoA) in downtown Seoul was canceled due to the preventive interference of the police as the eighth round of the talks that opened on March 8 nears its scheduled end on March 12.
South Korea and the United States were to wrap up their final official round of free trade agreement talks in Seoul on Monday, although they still have a few sensitive issues hanging in the balance.
Riot police used a water cannon Saturday to break up a noisy but peaceful street protest in downtown Seoul against a proposed free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States.
South Korea announced Thursday that it will lower its quarantine standards for US beef imports and resume imports of American beef that do not contain bone fragments.
South Korean Catholics on Friday asked God to stop a proposed free trade agreement between their country and the United States, as Washington's chief negotiator said the two sides were intensifying efforts to strike a deal their legislatures can approve.
With an end-of-March deadline looming large, the chief US free trade agreement negotiator with South Korea emphatically declared Thursday that a "high-quality" deal is within reach.
A group of about 870 people, including 23 lawmakers, voiced their opposition Thursday to the free trade talks between South Korea and the United States underway here, said organizers, witnesses and police.
South Korea and the United States made no headway in high-level talks to resolve outstanding agricultural issues that have been a sticking point in bilateral free trade negotiations, the government said Tuesday.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, has been a disaster for workers and families, and even social institutions, in the three participating nations -- the United States, Canada and Mexico -- labor experts from the three countries told Congress. Not only that, they warned that the pending US-Korea Free Trade Agreement would be a repeat of that NAFTA fiasco.
