Civil group calls for withdrawal of FTA trade-off deal

Leaders from a coalition of civic groups, Korean Civil Society Coalition on Intellectual Property Right (KCSC) and Korean Federation of Medical Groups for Health Rights (KFHR), hold a news conference on January 17 at Hotel Shilla, downtown Seoul, urging the government to withdraw from the free-trade agreement (FTA) trade-off deal that Korea could compromise with the U.S. by giving wider access ...