SEOUL: Rock-throwing South Korean farmers clashed with riot police outside parliament yesterday as they tried to block passage of a free trade agreement with Chile which growers fear will flood their markets with cheap produce.
Long-postponed votes on South Korea's first bilateral free trade agreement – and plans to send troops to Iraq – come as nervous legislators eye an April 15 general election to fill all 273 seats in the National Assembly, the unicameral parliament.
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