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Dominican president to visit Seoul
14-Jun-2006
President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic will sign a number of official documents in Seoul, including a memorandum of understanding on guaranteeing bilateral investment.
Council warns against free trade with South Korea
14-Jun-2006
Kitchener joined a growing list of municipalities worried about the impact a proposed free-trade agreement with South Korea will have on the crucial automotive sector of southwestern Ontario’s economy.
Canada-Korea free trade agreement bad news for Canada, CAW tells International Trade Committee
14-Jun-2006
The Canadian Auto Workers union will strongly oppose the proposed free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea in a presentation this afternoon to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade.
Uri Party to set up Assembly FTA Panel
14-Jun-2006
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.
A chance for social movements, or a chance for transnationals?
14-Jun-2006 KoA
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.
Korea pledges to protect farmers in FTA talks
13-Jun-2006
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.
Seoul gives much, takes little in FTA talks with Washington
13-Jun-2006
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.
S Korea-EU FTA to generate more benefits than US FTA, reports say
12-Jun-2006 Yonhap
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.
Koreans storm Cargill Corp offices
9-Jun-2006 DC Indymedia
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.
Korea, US at odds on two-thirds of free-trade agenda
8-Jun-2006
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.
US Democrats join Korean protesters
8-Jun-2006
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 lags in global trade race: Emerson
8-Jun-2006
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.
S. Korea, US far divided over rice, quarantine issues in FTA talks
8-Jun-2006 Yonhap
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.
Statements from a press conference challenging the US-Korea free trade agreement
8-Jun-2006 Oakland Institute
"Ever since President Roh Moo Hyun revealed his intent to pursue a FTA with the United States, every aspect of Korean society from labor, agriculture, entertainment, civic groups, and health sectors have voiced their opposition to the proposed deal."
Washington’s tactical shift on global trade
7-Jun-2006
Seoul and Washington have just launched free trade talks. The negotiations will be complex, acerbic and angry — and will finally bury the Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks.
Korea, US fail to agree on Kaesong-made goods
7-Jun-2006
The first round of free-trade negotiations between Korea and the US failed to produce agreement on products made at the joint-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea.
US and Korean labor say ’NO’ to NAFTA repeat
7-Jun-2006 Change to Win
Leaders of the four main labor federations in the United States and Korea — Change to Win, AFL-CIO, KCTU and FKTU — today joined forces to tell their governments to slow down negotiations of a US-Korea Free Trade agreement (KORUS FTA).
Negotiating the Korea-United States free trade agreement
7-Jun-2006 IIE
Policy brief from the US-based Insitute for International Economics.
Truths & myths about proposed Korea-US FTA
7-Jun-2006 Korea Times
Here are some of points that need to be cleared up about the US-Korea FTA according to The Korea Times
Bigger than NAFTA, just as controversial
6-Jun-2006 IPS
The United States and South Korea kick-started the first round of talks in Washington Monday toward a bilateral free trade agreement amid cheers from business groups and denunciations from labour groups and farmers from both nations.