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Korea
The governing Uri Party Wednesday decided to create a special National Assembly panel on a free trade agreement (FTA) to better prepare for the next round of talks with the United States.
In the context that the KorUS FTA is taking more specific form of neo-liberal globalization, it gives new possibility of anti-globalization movement to be as a just intellectuals' and activists' but a mass movement in South Korea.
South Korea aims to protect sensitive agricultural products even if a free trade agreement (FTA) is signed with the United States, a government negotiator said Tuesday.
South Korea and the United States ended their first round of formal five-day talks for a free trade agreement, but South Korean negotiators returned home empty-handed.
A free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the European Union will bring greater benefits to Asia's fourth-largest economy than a similar trade pact with the United States, reports showed Sunday.
While the USTR's team whines that protests are disrupting the talks, protestors led by the 60 plus delegation from South Korea stepped up the pressure by going to the offices of Cargill, an agricultural multinational corporation deeply involved in the impoverishment of traditional Korean farmers.
Seoul and Washington have failed to narrow their differences on some 60 percent of items on the agenda at their first round of free-trade talks in Washington. The talks started Monday.
Downtown traffic was temporarily jammed Wednesday as South Korean protesters opposing a trade agreement with the United States rallied the Buddhist way, bowing to the ground every three steps.
Canada has rested on its resource-boom laurels and has fallen behind in the global race to sign free-trade deals with other countries, Trade Minister David Emerson warns.
South Korea and the United States ended the third day of their first round of talks over a free trade accord Wednesday, with both remaining far apart over rice and quarantine issues, Seoul's chief negotiator said.
