U.S. chief negotiator for the FTA talks Wendy Cutler is reportedly talking tough [Yonhap News, Korean, nice photo], telling Korean reporters there would be “no FTA” [Korea Times] without Korea opening its beef market.
Meanwhile, OhMyNews carried this photo from the press conference by Ryu Seung-il:
Well, if that doesn’t win a concession, I don’t know what will.
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Given the equally vociferous positions staked out by the automakers and the pharma corps, and their political reps on the democratic side of the aisle, it’s hard to imagine that abolition of Korea’s tariff (at least to the reciprocal 2% level) and non-tariff barriers to US cars and the disadvantageous treatment of US pharmas in the ROK health-care system and IP regimes, are going to be any less in the way of deal-breakers.
Perhaps someone should advise the Korean side to throw water on Ms. Cutler.
It worked for Dorothy.
They always tend to use the most unflattering photos of US officials in Korean papers. …and in US papers for that matter. (if the individual is conservative)
- like this article from the Chosun!
again…
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....70010.html
again…
To think that some believed that the WTO ruling against Korea was supposed to open its beef market…
My three year old was looking over my shoulder as I saw that photo. He’s still laughing his butt off. I also seem to recall having seen a few less-than-flattering Wendy Cutler pics in local papers over the last few months. I remember thinking that there must have been better ones that could have been used instead.
I had a teacher in high school who looked just like her . . .
they also make news coming from foreign lands seem like they’re coming from a very distant source. Washington Teauk Pa Won, would show grainy images, with fizzy quality and what not, dubbed over with bad quality, when everyone knows satelite images can be much more crisp and smoother.
I think it’s a psychological game to put some distance between the foreign Mi Guk and Uri Nara.
Concerning Japan, they used to pick out relatively homely looking Japanese only for tv footage.
capt bbq, any bitch that is pushing poisonous met on her suffragetes is in no position to requisition photoshop, c’mon, the slut is a slapper, good photo or not
if she could come up with a deal that advances the interests of the people of the US and matches with the people of the ROK, the she wouod be more that a runnning dog imperialist that understood the issues of the world outside of her childrens’ struggles thoug university and her need to ensure they married well and she was promoted to the next most 9important grade of US diplomatic staff.
for a korea-related blog, its funny how little comprehension of korea-related issues is evident among the commenters. no wonder there is a comment sherrif, and a marmot is a northern american mammal.
meanwhile, i am an american, and i am sure to profit from an FTA
Because of course paying 7 times the developed world price of every foodstuff while making one-third the salary is in the interest of ROK citizens at large.
I believe the Marmot takes his name from the Mongolian delicacy of that name.
That was a pretty good Pawi you just did there dlatn.
keeps koreans slim, slim
To improve the lack of comprehension bemoaned by dlatn, here’s a link to an excellent policy brief on the comparative gains and losses for both countries. Includes the numbers with and without rice being included.
http://www.consejomexicano.org.....5374,841,7
You can find out a lot more by Googling Jeffrey Schott + Korea
Great photos!
If Cutler is pushing American beef in such a manner, then perhaps the FTA should die.
It seems the American beef industry is very, very powerful, especially considering how Secretary of State Rice brought up the topic of American beef to the Japanese earlier.
As far as I understand it, beef imported from the US into Korea is required to come from cows that have been de-boned. This photo appears to show the process.
Great photo.
I see a milk cow in her. What a similarity!