Before starting this story, I admit to being opponent to the FTA.
As soon as I arrived at home, I turned on my laptop to know what had happened in my country. As one of my classmate previously informed, the ratification had finally taken place inside the Assembly, without attendance of the opposition party. One of the Assembly, who is a member of the opposition party and his name is Kim Sun-dong, who had fortunately been in the Assembly session, had thrown a tear bomb to the chairman's table to stop the vote. And the others, from the other members to the journalist, had not been gained the admission to the chamber so the only thing they could have done is to attempt to break the door.
Sounds like a big mess, but that's what really happened.
The citizens had been protesting for hours and hours against the government and they'd been fired back with water cannons by police. It was -3 degrees in Seoul. A few of them had been arrested by police under the title of being RED or Commie, even the police had arrested the innocent pedestrian who had been watching the happening and had been complaining that they couldn't have crossed the road owing to the barricade.
Since when have we lost our freedom of expression? Are they able to tell us that the citizens were wrong, and they were the right one? Do they have the right to stifle our free expression? Or could they even exist without a nation? It's not just a problem of FTA, it's about RESPECT for our nation. We had expressed our opinions thousands of times that we were not agreed with the resolution of the National Assembly, and they never listened to us.
As it always happens, OUR Mr.President wasn't in Korea. It will be a splendid excuse for him because he'll tell us he wasn't in charge of the situation. Having the ratification approved, he showed up and appreciated the effort of their making deals with it.
Now you may ask me, what's wrong with the KORUS FTA? I'd like to ask you first, do you believe it's a equal treaty? Not at all.
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