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Really? Is such a ("logical") development possible??(*):


Is 'Made in USA' Backlash Next? (Korea Times, 5.30)


The ongoing protest against American beef may develop into an anti-"Made in the USA'' product campaign.


"Let's boycott U.S.-made products,'' read one posting Friday on a popular Korean Internet portal. "It's not just the Korean government that's pushing this import deal on Korean consumers. The American government is in on it. Let's boycott U.S. products,'' it continued. Such postings urging a boycott appeared following the government's announcement of the official resumption of beef imports, Thursday.



"Let's begin a campaign to boycott U.S. products. Boycott Hollywood movies! Don't wear Nike! Don't drink Starbucks coffee and stop going to McDonald's, Pizza Hut and KFC,'' read another Internet post.


U.S. companies with a business presence in Korea could suffer losses from the beef controversy if the campaign gains traction.


Choi In-ki, a top policymaker for the main opposition United Democratic Party, said last week during a National Assembly meeting that the U.S. government has nothing to gain if public resentment against its beef exports continues to build. The public backlash could expand to become an anti-U.S. products campaign, Choi told reporters...

 
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/05/116_25062.html


* But actually everything can be possible:


Yesterday K.T. reported that "armored vehicles with teargas launchers were dispatched" (against the ongoing "anti-US-beef" protests in the center of Seoul).


And now imagine that a tear gas grenade is hiiting and killing a middle school girl! And the tear gas grenade was "Made in USA"!!


Or imagine following scenario: The S. Korean army is buying used attack helicolpters AH-64 Apache from the US Army (S. Korea Considers Buying Secondhand U.S. Copters). And one of the copters, a short while later, is crashing... in a middle school in Gyeonggi-do!! Well, just imagine..


Yeah.. of course following report by today's Korea Times is really "helpfull" to support the current "anti-US..":
'US Ready to Hit N. Korean Targets'


Related articles:

Massive Candlelit Vigil Planned for Saturday (K. Times, 5.30)

Street Protests, Hunger Strikes, Resignation Demands.. (Marmot's Hole, 5.30)

"너희 월급 세금이다. 비켜라" (통일뉴스, 5.30)

첫불대오 덕수궁앞 대치중 경찰버스 시민 깔아 (KCTU)

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Protesters attempt to block distribution of stored beef (K. Herald)
   
Police are tightening security at 12 warehouses in Gyeonggi Province as protests intensify following the resumption of U.S. beef imports yesterday.
Some 1,800 officers will be dispatched to six warehouses in Gwangju, four in Yongin, one in Incheon and one in Hwaseong, where a combined 2,066 tons of U.S. beef is being stored. The beef has remained frozen since Oct. 5 when banned backbone fragments were found.


 


The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the nation's biggest labor umbrella group, said yesterday it will launch an all-out struggle against the government to block the planned release of the meat from the warehouses, presaging clashes with police.


"The government completely ignored public demands calling for securing health, and made a decision for the good of the U.S. livestock industry instead. Scrap the notification and renegotiate the import deal," the KCTU said in a press conference held in front of a beef storage house in Yongin.


"The Lee Myung-bak government has crossed a line that it should not have crossed. The formal notification of the import terms is tantamount to waging a war against citizens."...


"A full-fledged struggle will be initiated the moment the shipments of U.S. beef begin. It will be peaceful, but it will be the government's fault if the police crack down on us high-handedly," the KCTU added...

 




 


 

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