Antibiotics for Feeding Animals to Be Banned
SOUTH KOREA - Popular antibiotics will no longer be fed to poultry, livestock and fish from next year accoprding to official reports.

SKorea Parliament Ends US Beef Deadlock
SOUTH KOREA - Rival South Korean political parties on Tuesday ended a legislative deadlock allowing the formation of an assembly when they agreed to revise a law on regulating contentious beef imports.

US Calms Korean Mad Cow Panic
KOREA - The undersecretary for food safety at the US reasserted the safety of American beef at a recent conference to Korean correspondents.

Mad Cow Rumours Contagious on the Net
SOUTH KOREA - Ever since Korea agreed to open its doors to US beef the internet has been rife with exaggerated, confused and often, entirely fictional, rumours over mad cow disease. The scaremongering attack has brought about a sense of great concern...

Binders Could Improve Viability of Cheap Starch Sources
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea's feed industry is feeling the pressure of high cereal prices and short supplies. Some mills are expecting to run out of wheat in the next few months and are considering using alternative raw materials, such as Manioc.

Ethanol Demand Driving Up Grain Prices
SOUTH KOREA - No morsel of food will likely be spared on the groaning tables of Americans this holiday. Let diets be the ugly Grinch of this Christmas. And the eating and the, yes, gorging, will include large numbers of Christmas cookies, cakes and other...

Hanwoo’ Group Punished for Discriminating Importers
SOUTH KOREA - South Korean beef cattle breeders were found to have forced local feed dealers not to provide feedstuff for imported cattle raisers, the first illicit business practice committed by a domestic industry to counter expected damage from freer...

FTA with EU to hurt S. Korea's meat, dairy sectors: report
SEOUL - A free trade pact with the European Union (EU) is expected to hurt South Korea's alcoholic beverage, meat and dairy sectors, a report said Monday.

North Korea asks South to help with foot-and-mouth
SEOUL - North Korea has culled pigs and cows to try to halt an outbreak of highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease and asked the South to provide it with medication, South Korea's unification minister said on Thursday.

S. Korea's beef, pork prices highest among leading economies: report
SOUTH KOREA - High land prices and an inability to reach economy of scale have made South Korean beef and pork the most expensive among leading world economies, a report by an international organization said Monday.

South Korea's demands can jeopardise FTA – Gutierrez
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea's demands that the United States change its anti-dumping laws could wreck chances of pushing through a free trade agreement, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Tuesday.

No breakthrough in latest FTA talks
SOUTH KOREA - Seoul stressed the easing of U.S. trade rules and Washington declared the full reopening of the Korean market to U.S. beef as key to securing a successful bilateral free trade agreement.

Bone Fragment Halts US Meat Delivery
SOUTH KOREA - The South Korean government has rejected the first batch of U.S. beef shipped after a 3-year ban because of a bone fragment in one of the packages.