Over a Half-Million South Koreans March against U.S. Beef imports

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-SKorea-US-Beef.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=seoul+protest&st=nyt&oref=slogin AP

Overwhelming solidarity in Seoul, South Korea. Nearly a million people marched protesting against the President of South Korea Lee Myungbak. The public display is over Myungbak's decision to import United States Beef into South Korea. South Korean citizens fear that American Beef will give them and their families "Mad Cow" disease. The South Korean citizens have been upset the way the President makes decisions with his top-down strategies favoring its' wealthy citizens and corporations -- sounds vaguely familiar. Read on about the situation in the links provided from the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, AP, and the Washington Post.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/11/MN4D116QGJ.DTL SF Chronicle

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061001463.html?sub=AR Washington Post

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/asia/11korea.html?scp=2&sq=seoul+protest&st=nyt NYTimes