U.S. beef may be a tough sell in Korea
Posted May 30, 2008 11:00 pm
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea says it will start allowing American beef back into the country, defying weeks of public protests and fulfilling a pledge made to the United States.
Amid daily street demonstrations involving thousands of people, major supermarkets said Friday they have no immediate plans to sell U.S. beef. The government said Thursday it would go ahead with the plan to allow sales after delaying its implementation for weeks.
Hours later nearly 10,000 protesters marched to denounce the move. South Korea shut its doors to American beef in December 2003 after the first case of mad-cow disease in the U.S.
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