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South Koreans Protest U.S. Trade Deal

HeadlineJun 21, 2007

In South Korea, thousands of South Korean farmers gathered in Seoul Wednesday to protest a pending trade agreement with the United States. American negotiators are set to arrive today to revise the deal according to environmental and labor standards in last month’s bipartisan trade pact. But South Korean officials say the talks amount to a consultation, not a renegotiation. Park Eui-kyu of the Korea Advanced Farmers Federation: “Free trade with the United States is like robbing our right to live. We will have no place to live after the free trade. We’re protesting to get our right to live back.”

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