Talks Break Down on US/Korean Meat Trade
SOUTH KOREA - The US South Korean discussions failed to to reach an agreement over the dispute on American imports.

US Korean Dialogue Opens Up
SOUTH KOREA - Senior officials from both Korea and the United States will meet up today in order to discuss how they can improve access into the Korean market.

US Beef Import Ban Spurs ‘Hanwoo’ Breeding
SOUTH KOREA - Farmers are raising more 'hanwoo,' Korea's homebred cattle, on rising demand even though prices are higher than imported beef from the U.S. and Australia, according to the National Statistical Office (NSO) Wednesday.

Binders Could Improve Viability of Cheap Starch Sources
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea's feed industry is feeling the pressure of high cereal prices and short supplies. Some mills are expecting to run out of wheat in the next few months and are considering using alternative raw materials, such as Manioc.

Country of Origin Labeling at Restaurants in Korea
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is planning to expand its current country-of-origin- labelling (COOL)requirements for beef to include large restaurants. This ruling will become affective from July 1, 2008. It is also believed that COOL will become mandatory...

Beef Deal Key to Korean FTA
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is holding a Conference on "Strengthening Economic and Trade Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean" this week.

S. Korea Considering U.S. Beef Imports
SEOUL - South Korea is considering an option of fully reopening U.S. beef imports through a step-by-step process, possibly including shipments of previously unaccepted parts including bones, reports Yonhap news agency.

New Govt to Deal With US Beef Issue
SOUTH KOREA - Negotiations between South Korea and the United States to revise the guidelines for imports of American beef will most likely not come to an end within the tenure of the incumbent Roh Moo-hyun administration.

Ethanol Demand Driving Up Grain Prices
SOUTH KOREA - No morsel of food will likely be spared on the groaning tables of Americans this holiday. Let diets be the ugly Grinch of this Christmas. And the eating and the, yes, gorging, will include large numbers of Christmas cookies, cakes and other...

Korea Plans National CattleTracking System For 2008
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea will introduce nationwide cattle and beef tracking systems starting late next year, the government said on Monday.

Seoul Not to Discriminate Canadian, US Beef
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea will not discriminate between Canadian and U.S. beef in ongoing talks for the resumption of imports, according to government officials Thursday. Canada is calling for a full resumption of beef imports, regardless of age or part...

S. Korea Ranked No. 3 Importer of U.S. Beef in September
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea became the third-largest importer of American beef in September, a report by the U.S. government and meat exporters said Monday.

Imported Beef Prices Fall 7.6%
SOUTH KOREA - Prices of imported beef have been falling drastically this year since the conclusion of a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States and the resumption of imports from America, government statistics showed Tues...

Seoul Stands Its Ground On US Beef Import Rules
SEOUL - South Korea's top agriculture policymaker said Friday that there will be no linkage between plans to rewrite U.S. beef import rules with the ratification of the free trade agreement (FTA) that was signed in late June.

U.S. Trade Negotiator Links Beef To FTA
SOUTH KOREA - Though U.S. asserts open market and trade pact go hand in hand, S. Korea insists on keeping things separate

U.S. Asks South Korea To Allow Imports Of All Beef Parts
SOUTH KOREA - The U.S. has asked South Korea to allow the import of all beef parts at a meeting aimed at rewriting the current import rules, government officials said Thursday.

S. Korea Not Expected To Move An Inch On US Talks
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea will push to maintain its ban on materials that could transmit mad cow disease at its talks with the U.S. aimed at revising rules for importing American beef, government sources said Thursday.

Korean Cows Sip Herbal Tonics as Local Farms Fight U.S. Imports
SOUTH KOREA - For Lee Jong Chul, a consumer- products importer in Seoul, U.S. beef is a bargain at about 40 percent the price of South Korean cuts.

South Korea Halts US Beef Inspections
SEOUL — South Korea was Friday considering a new suspension of US beef imports, little over a month after resuming them, after another shipment was found to contain banned bones.

US Beef Imports Surge
SOUTH KOREA - U.S. beef is rapidly eating into the South Korean market. The total volume of U.S. beef imports has increased more than 10 times in the past couple of months and the number of large distributors dealing with the American beef has also neared...