First US beef shipment arrives in SOUTH KOREA: officials - (AFP)
July 28, 2008 – 5:48 pmSEOUL — A shipment of US ribs arrived in South Korea on Tuesday for the first time in nearly five years under a new import deal which has sparked weeks of massive street protests here.
The 1.5-tonne shipment of ribs and other bone-in cuts of Creekstone Farms Premium Beef arrived by air at Incheon airport, west of Seoul, early Tuesday, according to local beef importer Nerp Corp. and quarantine officials.
The shipment was the first since December 2003, when Seoul banned US beef imports over fears of mad cow disease.
Seoul and Washington reached a deal in April to resume imports in hopes of paving the way for a wider free trade agreement.
But the deal sparked almost daily street protests which rocked President Lee Myung-Bak’s newly elected conservative government and led him to sack three cabinet ministers.
The US meat will undergo quarantine inspections for about 10 days before being released to local markets […]
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