FTA trade-offs with U.S. stirs controversy

Seoul's chief negotiator's hint for the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement that Korea could compromise with the U.S. by giving wider access to Korea's auto and pharmaceutical markets if U.S. trade rules are changed is in controversy.

"Although it hasn't been promised that we would heed U.S. demands for changing our system of levying higher taxes on cars with large engine sizes and our drug-reim...