Your Web Site
The US beef issue has been politically explosive in South Korea More than a month of paralysis in South Korea's National Assembly will finally lift this week, after the opposition party agreed to end its boycott. Deputies from the Democratic Party had refused to attend legislative sessions in protest at the government's decision to scrap a ban on US beef imports. The issue also triggered near-nightly street protests in Seoul, and the sacking of three ministers on Monday. Despite the DP's return, it is still making demands over the beef issue. The party says that Monday's cabinet reshuffle did not go far enough, and is demanding Finance Minister Kang Man-soo lose his job. It is also pressing for laws governing foreign meat imports to be tightened. US beef imports into South Korea were banned in 2003, after the discovery of... [read full story]
