SEOUL, June 8 (Xinhua)
Thousands of Koreans scuffled with riot police in downtown Seoul until early Sunday morning as they tried to march on the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae to protest the U.S. beef import deal. They were part of the approximately 40,000 protesters who marched in the city center carrying candles and chanting slogans calling for complete renegotiation of the deal for a stricter age limit despite Washington’s pledge not to export beef from older cattle to help ease local fears over mad cow disease. President Lee Myung-bak called U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday night (Seoul time) to ask for cooperation to ensure that U.S. beef from cattle older than 30 months of age, considered at greater risk of mad cow disease, is not exported to Korea, and Bush promised to do so, according to Lee’s office. More
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