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S Korea Beef Protests Turn Violent
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by Jordan Yerman | June 29, 2008 at 08:47 am
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Rioting broke out in Seoul, South Korea today as demonstrators marching against Seoul's decision to continue importing US beef clashed with police.
Clashes broke out after more than 15,000 protesters headed toward the presidential office, news agency Yonhap said.
The demonstrators used ropes to pull down police buses that had been parked around the presidential office to block the marchers from entering.
Many carried steel pipes and hurled rocks at officers. Police fired back with water cannons and fire extinguishers.
South Koreans have protested regularly since April when the government announced it would resume importing beef from the United States after a five-year ban. That ban was instituted over a case of mad cow disease in 2003.
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at 01:07 on June 30th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff. THe Government in Japan has agreed to import US beef again and lift all restriction, however the people are not to happy about it, yet Japanese are usually more quiet and rebel less even if they do not like it!