Pharmaceuticals to be excluded from US FTA renegotiation list

The Korean government is set to hold renegotiations with the United States on a free trade agreement (FTA), focusing on labor and environment, while Korean critics focus on the situation that the U.S. is struggling to gain more in automobiles'' and beef'' for American exporters without raising pharmaceutical issue.

The U.S. achieved concessions from Korea in pharmaceuticals and screen quotas...