LinkAsia
| Mar 23, 2012
Critics are focusing on the Investor-State Dispute clause in the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. Negotiations over the ISD will start within 90 days after FTA goes into effect. There is disagreement about whether the clause should be removed ...
LinkAsia
| Mar 23, 2012
Taiwanese officials believe that South Korea's Free Trade Agreement with the US will cost the country over USD$3 billion in lost trade. A dispute over a ban of a chemical additive in US beef is holding up Taiwan's own FTA with the US. Contributor ...
LinkAsia
| Dec 8, 2011
Large protests have erupted in Seoul, led by small business owners and farmers, against the South Korean government's Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Yoo Eun Lee of Global Voices Online reports.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Nov 22, 2011
South Korea's ruling party has ratified a controversial free trade deal with the United States despite opposition MP Kim Sun-dong letting off a tear gas device, briefly clearing the chamber.
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 13, 2011
The US congress has approved free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ending a four-year drought in the forming of new trade partnerships. Al Jazeera's Andy Gallacher reports on arguments for and against the agreements.