ISDS Case Map
Korea
Through the prism of beef, Koreans confront the limitations of key contemporary institutions: democracy, capitalism, and nationalism.
No one is sure how successful the movement will be in stopping the importation of American beef into Korea but it has certainly fractured the seemingly monolithic aura of President Lee and his neo-liberal bulldozer and will perhaps spark a new generation of class struggle in South Korea.
Workers at Hyundai Motor Co. staged a partial strike Thursday over stalled annual wage negotiations with management and the resumption of US beef imports.
South Korea and six Gulf states agreed Wednesday to forge a free trade deal by the end of next year, a chief negotiator from the Seoul side said.
Le lien entre « la crise du boeuf » et les accords de libre-échange est évident. « À travers l'un, nous luttons contre l'autre, explique-t-on. Même si c'est un lien que ne font pas tous ceux qui descendent dans la rue aujourd'hui. Notre mouvement exige la rectification des accords conclus en avril de l'an dernier. Ceux-ci concernent durablement la vie de tous les citoyens, les paysans en premier lieu. »
South Korea and India have held five rounds of CEPA (comprehensive economic partnership agreement) negotiations thus far, but the pact -- which is similar to a free trade agreement -- has yet to be concluded due to remaining disputes over rules of origin, services and agricultural trade.
South Korean activists Saturday promised to draw one million protesters nationwide in the biggest anti-US beef rallies so far
Some 240 tons of beef products from an approved US exporter to Korea suspected of being contaminated with the O-157 strain of E. coli have been recalled, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Wednesday.
South Korean activists on Thursday launched a nationwide campaign to boycott US beef as President Lee Myung-Bak issued a fresh warning against violent protests.
South Korea and the Gulf Cooperation Council will hold their first round of talks for a free-trade agreement in Seoul next week, seeking to establish a basic approach for negotiating the envisioned deal
