31.   The Commission said while telecoms infrastructure and services have been gradually liberalized in Korea, the Korean market for network equipment went in the opposite direction.

32.   The relaxation of government control also extended to allowing foreign studios more leverage in the Korean market, once tightly protected.

33.   U.S. and South Korean negotiators began two days of talks Tuesday over trade barriers that American automakers claim are keeping them out of the Korean market.

34.   Washington has criticized South Korea for being too slow to remove trade barriers, which it says deny American goods fair access to the fast growing Korean markets.

35.   Visiting US Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor called Tuesday for a fair trading environment that would allow more US cars into the increasingly affluent Korean market.

36.   Visiting US Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor called Monday for a fair trading environment that would allow more US cars into the increasingly affluent Korean market.

37.   US and South Korean negotiators reached agreement Thursday on opening the Korean market to foreign car imports, US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor announced.