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Friday, November 25, 2005

End of Autarky in Korea
From Assembly passes bill to open up rice market:
    Lawmakers clash before the vote on a bill to open the nation`s rice market wider at the National Assembly yesterday. [The Korea Herald]
The yangban with the beard and hanbok is Rep. Gang Gi-gap, of the ultra-leftist Democratic Labor Party. He is the former president of the Korean Catholic Farmers Association.

Yes, rice will be cheaper, but at what price? Is it a good idea for a small nation surrounded by giants to give up its agriculture?