Political Resistance to Free Trade and Social Compensation in South Korea.

This paper explores how less competitive industrial interest groups tried to win over more resources during negotiation process of FTA between U.S. and South Korea. In South Korea, the cleavage pattern over trade policy has shown as a mixture of both class and industry cleavage and the government compensation measures have been characterized as a mixture of long run and concrete things. The government has guaranteed more resources in agriculture sector. By doing a case study of FTA with U.S., comparing with other industries, I found that agriculture interest groups have affected policy process for FTA negotiations through mainly demonstrations. In return, public expenditure has increased in accordance with the level of political protest. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]