So what are the odds that tens of thousands of people will take to the streets demanding a renegotiation of the Chile-ROK Free Trade Agreement after this?:
The government on Thursday suspended Chilean pork imports after it found traces of toxic dioxin that can damage the human immune system and cause cancer.
The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries said that it discovered three-point-nine picograms of dioxin in a package belonging to a five-point-four ton shipment that arrived in early June.
The dioxin level exceeds both the two picogram limit set by Seoul and the European Union’s one picogram limit. [KBS Global]
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11:36 pm on July 7th, 2008 1
You have a good point GI Korea. I would say the chances are close to 0%.
7:05 am on July 8th, 2008 2
I’d be surprised if it is mentioned again after this week even.
7:23 am on July 8th, 2008 3
If this was American beef with dioxin you can just imagine what the response would be. This is just another example of the underlying anti-US sentiment in Korea that I have long demonstrated.
1:26 pm on July 8th, 2008 4
American dioxine is much more lethal than Chile’s. It’s kind of like when USFK dropped 88 ounces of chemical “F” into the Han river, when Suwon dumped 320 tons of untreated sewage into the Han river the same month, the chemicals were much more mild and understanding of Korean anatomy.
3:46 pm on July 8th, 2008 5
Hamilton did you hear about how lethal American dioxin is compared to Chile dioxin on PD Diary by chance?
3:52 pm on July 8th, 2008 6
Koreans are genetically more sensitive to dioxin. Because of that fact, we are all PHD’s in chemistry.
10:22 pm on July 10th, 2008 7
[...] greater security and economic interests, the cost of the alliance is prohibitive. Why isn’t poisonous Chilean pork of any concern to South Koreans? Because it’s not American, [...]
6:39 am on July 24th, 2008 8
[...] Once again there has been more dioxin found in beef imported from Chile: [...]