In the 1990s, Lee adopted more visible methods in his battle for the Korean farmer.
American pressure makes Korean farmers and workers mad.
South Korean farmers and leftist civic groups have staged daily protests against the trade pact.
South Korea provides Korean farmers with levels of subsidy considerably higher than farmers elsewhere in the world.
Land that had formerly grown sugar was now converted to growing henequen, and employed the Korean farmers as cutters.
The Korean farmers are not rich and struggle to compete with cheap food from other countries.
The largest group, about 1.7 million people, lived in China, the descendants of the Korean farmers who had left the country during the Japanese occupation.
Some poor Korean farmers moved there.
However, we must not ignore the fact that the agreement does not only bring advantages for European companies and Korean farmers.
North Korean farmers found him and summoned the police, who arrested him.