Comments on: When the FTA Meets the Battle of Salsu http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/ Korea... in Blog Format Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:30:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Korea-U.S. FTA http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/#comment-95364 Korea-U.S. FTA Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:35:43 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/#comment-95364 <strong>The Financial Editor of the Korea Times Deploys a 7th Century Korean General Against House Democrats...</strong> Here is the editorial: A Poetic Approach to FTA (Cho Jae-hyon, Korea Times, July 4). Here is commentary by Robert Koehler: When the FTA Meets the Battle of Salsu (The Marmot's Hole, July 5) and Andrew Leonard: A lesson in... The Financial Editor of the Korea Times Deploys a 7th Century Korean General Against House Democrats…

Here is the editorial: A Poetic Approach to FTA (Cho Jae-hyon, Korea Times, July 4). Here is commentary by Robert Koehler: When the FTA Meets the Battle of Salsu (The Marmot’s Hole, July 5) and Andrew Leonard: A lesson in…

]]> By: MigukNamja http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/#comment-95059 MigukNamja Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:30:57 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/#comment-95059 Neither Democrats nor Republicans will sign the FTA as long as Kaesong (and hence, Kim Jong-Il) has a chance of benefiting from. I've also noticed a complete lack of mention of this elephant in the room from the Korean press. It's much easier for the Korean press to throw around red herrings like a piddly 2% U.S. import duty on Hyundais rather than talk about the real issue : South Korea's insistence on shoveling as much money into Kim Jong-Il's pockets as possible. It's obvious the Korean Press and their ilk is not interested in covering the real issues, but are more than happy to wave the Tae-goo-ki and talk about the U.S. as if it was an invading military force that must be defeated. Neither Democrats nor Republicans will sign the FTA as long as Kaesong (and hence, Kim Jong-Il) has a chance of benefiting from.

I’ve also noticed a complete lack of mention of this elephant in the room from the Korean press. It’s much easier for the Korean press to throw around red herrings like a piddly 2% U.S. import duty on Hyundais rather than talk about the real issue : South Korea’s insistence on shoveling as much money into Kim Jong-Il’s pockets as possible.

It’s obvious the Korean Press and their ilk is not interested in covering the real issues, but are more than happy to wave the Tae-goo-ki and talk about the U.S. as if it was an invading military force that must be defeated.

]]> By: Sperwer http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/#comment-95050 Sperwer Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:28:32 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/#comment-95050 <blockquote>Free trade is a war of goods and services between companies.</blockquote> Whoops! What happened to the "win/win" mantra? Right, that was just the bait; now the hook comes out. My guess is that in the end the US isn't going to bite, and Korea will have to postpone it's xx,000 per capita until it finds another sucker to subsidize it. Schadenfreude.

Free trade is a war of goods and services between companies.

Whoops! What happened to the “win/win” mantra? Right, that was just the bait; now the hook comes out. My guess is that in the end the US isn’t going to bite, and Korea will have to postpone it’s xx,000 per capita until it finds another sucker to subsidize it. Schadenfreude.

]]> By: mateomiguel http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/#comment-95011 mateomiguel Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:01:32 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/05/when-the-fta-meets-the-battle-of-salsu/#comment-95011 So South Korea views this coming FTA as a strategic Korean victory over a large, militant foreign aggressor? That's nice to know. Puts things in perspective. So South Korea views this coming FTA as a strategic Korean victory over a large, militant foreign aggressor?

That’s nice to know. Puts things in perspective.

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