How Canadian beef finally returned to South Korea

At least in this instance, the combination of litigation and diplomacy was a successful formula.

Published January 25, 2012

South Korea was the last major beef-importing country to hold out from resuming importation of Canadian beef, following the discovery of a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalolpathy in Canada in 2003.

It was a long haul of nearly nine years, but Korea finally approved imports of Canadian beef on Jan. 20, 2012. So why, or how, did it finally end its holdout?

The diplomatic efforts and technical...

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