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[afl Interview] Jung Soo-young, Chairperson of the National Committee Against the Listing of Imported Flowers
[afl Interview] 정수영 수입꽃상장반대전국대책위원회 위원장
[Nongsuchuksan Shinmun = Reporter Kim Jin-oh] The floriculture industry is strongly protesting the push by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (aT) to list imported flowers at the Yangjae-dong Flower Auction Market in Seoul. While aT's plan is reportedly intended to encourage transparent trading of gradually increasing imported flowers ahead of the ratification of the Strategic Economic Cooperation Agreement (SECA) between Korea and Ecuador, farmers view this differently. We met with Jung Soo-young, Chairman of the National Committee Against the Listing of Imported Flowers (and President of the Gyeonggi Rose Research Association), who began a protest in front of the aT Center in Yangjae-dong on the 26th of last month, to hear the demands from the field.
