Friday June 06th 2008, 11:45 pm
Dozens were injured in the largest protest yet over an agreement to resume U.S. beef imports to South Korea, according to authorities and media reports Saturday.
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SKorean president vows ‘humble attitude’ (AP via Yahoo! News)
South Korea: Outcry Over Beef Imports (New York Times)
Friday June 06th 2008, 10:34 pm
Street protests continued over government plans to resume beef imports from the United States.
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Meat-Counter Confusion in S. Korea (Washington Post)
Friday June 06th 2008, 9:55 pm
SEOUL -- It's been a spooky spring in the beef-and-poultry aisle. South Korean shoppers have had to wrestle with risks real and rumored, domestic and imported, pathogenic and political.
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Protesters Rally on Streets (donga.com)
Friday June 06th 2008, 7:55 pm
On Friday, the second day of the “72-Hour Relay Action of People,” the People’s Council Against the Import of U.S. Beef with Mad Cow Disease Risk held a rally attended by around 30,000 people at Seoul Plaza in front of Seoul City Hall. The protesters later moved to the street.
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Korea’s beef with the U.S.
Friday June 06th 2008, 12:00 pm
The restart of U.S. beef imports has evolved into a political crisis between two allies who have a love-hate relationship that is sometimes acted out with histrionics on the country's streets.
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Thousands in Seoul rally against U.S. beef (Moldova.org)
Friday June 06th 2008, 1:01 am
Thousands of South Koreans Thursday protested the government's decision to allow beef imported from the United States into the country.Beef imports had been banned because of fears cattle in the United States might be infected with mad cow disease.The rally in Seoul was billed as the first event in days of demonstrations, Yonhap News Agency reported. Organizers predict 1 million people could ...
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