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Dear Colleagues,
The fifth G20 Summit will be held in Seoul on November 11th to 12th. This meeting has grave consequences for the people of Korea and the entire world. The G20 has appointed itself the principal body responsible for finding a solution to the global economic crisis and managing (...)
Gran Canaria, July 25th 2008
Since April 2008, the Korean people have continuously protested against the US beef imports which are a precondition for the US ratification of the controversial US-Korea FTA. This relates to serious concerns about the safety of US beef. The Korean government has (...)
Thousands of Koreans have been protesting the importation U.S. beef by gathering in vigils almost every night for the last two months. Many Koreans fear since the April trade negotiation between the U.S. and the Lee administration that their government would import beef contaminated with the (...)
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Yonhap) — An estimated 20,000 blue-collar workers, farmers and college students staged a massive rally in downtown Seoul on Sunday in protest of a South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement and government legislation that they claim discriminates against non-regular workers.
The (...)
The Korean Alliance against the Korea-U.S. FTA 150-982 Daeyoung Building 3F, 139 Youngdeungpo-dong 2-ga, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea Tel: 82-2-775-2501 www.nofta.or.kr
The Continuing Suppression of Korea’s Anti-FTA Movement
The Arrests of Mr. Seok-woon PARK (Executive Committee (...)
To: President Roh Moo-Hyun, South Korea
International Protest Letter
In Protest against the Arrests of Seok-woon PARK and Je-jun JU
We Demand their Immediate Release!
We Demand an Immediate End to the Suppression of the Korean Alliance!
We are seriously troubled by the police brutality (...)
During their strikes against the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, workers held a rally at the Hyundai Motors factor in Ulsan. Photo: Korean Metal Workers Union Korean metal workers are on the front lines in the fight against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the South Korean and U.S. (...)
Please see below (and attached) Press Release from Korea Alliance against Korea-US/EU FTAs. They are asking for international endorsements to the press release they will use during a press conference to be held in Seoul on Monday 16th July (the day the 2nd Round of negotiations of Kor-EU FTA (...)
Participate in the campaign for the release of two Korean Alliance against KorUS FTA co-chairs, who were arrested and imprisoned as of 3rd July, for leading anti-FTA activities. For enquiries, please write to the KoA intl team interstruggle gmail.com See also: Compaign: Release Korean (...)
Dear all, Please read the email below and participate in the campaign for the release of two Korean Alliance against KorUS FTA co-chairs, who were arrested and imprisoned as of 3rd July, for leading anti-FTA activities. For enquiries, please write to the KoA intl team interstruggle (...)
The landmark bilateral trade agreement signed between the United States and South Korea Monday symbolizes the final end of the protected, export-led economic model that molded South Korea into one of Asia’s biggest tiger economies and signifies that the country can no longer sit behind tariff (...)
No FTA Newsletter
Official News of the Korean Alliance Against the Korea-US FTA
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Vol. 1, No. 4, March 12, 2007
In the Newsletter
Solidarity Statements
Five-Thousand Rally against Free (...)
Korean government’s repression on the anti-KorUS FTA movement intensified
Police attack and repression on workers and farmers are intensified after the first “Mass People’s Resistance against KorUS FTA” on 22nd of November. Up to date over police issued summons and warrants of arrests to more than (...)
In South Korea, the Mass People’s Resistance has started
On November 22nd, in the capital of Seoul and throughout the surrounding Kyung-gi Province, from Choong-chung to Kang-won, from Jun-book to Kwang-ju City in Southern Cholla Province, in 17 places around the country all toll, the Mass (...)
The 4th round of talks on Korea-US FTA is being held from 23th to 27th October, in Jeju Island in South Korea. Just as we had warned, the FTA talks are being driven to an uneven negotiation behind doors, ignoring peoples’ concerns and resistance. Clearly, the FTA is pushed not by peoples’ will (...)
Korean Alliance against the KorUS FTA
The third round of talks over the Korea-U.S. FTA will be held in Seattle in the United States -a famous battleground of the WTO protests in 1999-from 6th to 9th September. The third round of FTA talks is very crucial because the South Korean government and (...)
Twelve-thousand people marched on April 16 when the National Movement Against the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement held its first mobilisation. The coalition brings together around 270 different organisations, including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the Korean Peasant (...)
The South Korea-U.S. FTA Will Only Reenact the Historical Annexation of Korea by Japan. Let Us Stop the FTA and Rescue the Country! An Evil Spirit Haunts Korea
The agreement on suspension of pharmaceuticals price markdown in Oct. 2005, agreement on lowering standards of automobile exhaust (...)
We welcome the news that all those imprisoned for participating in the WTO demonstrations were granted bail due to the willingness of Hong Kong Bishop Jospeph Jin and Chang Dae-Op, a coordinator with the Asia Monitor Resource Center, to stand as guarantee for the defendants. Until the very (...)
We, the Korean Human Rights Network composed of 35 human rights organizations in the Republic of Korea, are welcome to hear the news that 838 protesters who were detained in the police station were released yesterday. But, we are concerned that 14 protesters in detention are waiting for whether (...)
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