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TOPIC 1. Three-way FTA talks with Japan, China end with little progress
The latest round of negotiations for a trilateral 3개국간의 free trade agreement (FTA) with China and Japan ended without a major breakthrough돌파구, officials said Friday, with the talks mostly limited to setting the boundary of 경계 their discussions. "At this round of talks, the countries held discussions on the modality양상 (negotiation guidelines) for products and the scope영역 of their negotiations," the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said in a press release. The fourth round of the trilateral FTA negotiations had begun on Tuesday in Seoul. The three countries, which are currently embroiled in휘말리게 만들다 various territorial and historical rows 심각한 의견 대립 , had agreed to pursue a joint FTA in November 2012. The first round of talks opened in March last year. The South Korean trade ministry said the countries held working group talks on some of the key issues, such as country of origin, customs and non-tariff barriers비관세장벽. Separate talks were also held on the service industry, investment and competition, it said. Working level negotiations of intellectual property rights protection did not take place this time around. Insiders said Japan showed considerable aggressiveness at the talks, that may have to do in part to Tokyo being conscious 자각하는 of the nine rounds of bilateral FTA talks held between Seoul and Beijing. Trade Minister Yoon Sang-jick had told reporters a day before the start of the talks that the negotiations may not produce any significant outcome, saying "Negotiations do not always go smoothly. In certain cases, the countries must engage in a tug of war." 줄다리기 The trilateral agreement, if realized, will create one of the world's largest markets as the three countries jointly account for 20 percent of global gross domestic product and 17.5 percent of global trade. The ministry said the next round of negotiations will be held in China in July with South Korean officials, stressing they will bear in mind the need to maintain a degree of consistency일관성 with ongoing Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership talks. (Yonhap)
1. How do you think about FTA among 3 countries.
2. What is merit or demerit of FTA?
TOPIC 2. Chinese officials debate why China can’t make a soap opera as good as South Korea’s
BEIJING — There is no shortage of problems facing China these days: a terrorist attack that recently left 33 people dead and 143 injured, corruption in government, a worrisome slowdown in economic growth.
So when the country’s two highest governing bodies met in Beijing this week, what was the burning issue on the delegates’ lips? A South Korean soap opera that has taken the country by storm.
To be fair, it’s hard to overstate과장하다 just how popular this show is these days. After the show’s female lead mentioned “beer and fried chicken” in one episode, it became one of the most invoked적용된 phrases online. Restaurants cashed in and started selling beer-and-fried-chicken meals.
One pregnant woman from Jiangsu, a province in eastern China, almost had a miscarriage, according to news reports, after she stayed up too many nights binge-watching and eating fried chicken and beer.
The show’s name translated in English is “My Love from the Star.” It has garnered 얻다[모으다] more than 2.5 billion views online and has shot up to the top of the country’s viewership. (A taste of the drama, with English subtitles, is available here.)
Its premise(주장의) 전제 may seem bizarre특이한 to Western soap watchers: It’s about an alien who accidentally arrives on Earth 400 years ago, meets an arrogant오만한 female pop star and falls in love.
Well aware of the craze대유행 the drama has created in China, one committee of China’s political advisory body (called the CPPCC) spent a whole morning bemoaning한탄하다 why China can’t make a show as good and as big of a hit.
At a meeting of delegates from the culture and entertainment industry, some blamed it partly on China’s censorship, euphemistically완곡어법으로 referred to as the “examination and approval system” at the meeting by Feng Xiaogang, a famous director and a CPPCC member. “My heart trembles,떨리다” he said, when waiting for a movie to go through this rigorous엄격한 censoring procedure.
“My wings and imagination are all broken,” said one comedian delegate. But she didn’t go into further detail, perhaps out of caution of offending those very censors.
Many viewed the popularity of the Korean drama as a heavy blow강타 to Chinese confidence in their culture.
“It is more than just a Korean soap opera. It hurts our culture dignity,”one CPPCC member said.
It’s not the first time popular foreign entertainment has led to hand-wringing in China. In 2008, when Dreamworks’ “Kung Fu Panda” became a runaway hit in China, it led to similar soul-searching. Why did it take American producers to find the drama and humor in a fat panda learning kung fu in China, many asked.
This time around, the angst over the Korean drama carries with it bitterness about regional rivalries. While China has long considered itself the source of East Asian culture, the domination of Japanese comics and Korean soap operas in Chinese pop culture challenges that view.
One of China’s top seven Communist Party leaders even weighed in on the issue this week.
“Korean drama is ahead of us,” Wang Qishan said in surprising comments at one of the more important legislative meetings, according to Beijing News. Wang is head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, in charge of an ongoing wide-scale anti-corruption campaign. (Wang, who seems to keep a busy TV viewing schedule, is also reportedly one of the many ardent열정적인 fans within the party of the Netflix drama “House of Cards.)
But, he said, the Korean soap opera also highlights how the Chinese value aspects of their traditional culture that can be seen in the drama.
“The core and soul of the Korean opera is a distillation증류 of traditional Chinese culture,” Wang said. “It just propagates traditional Chinese culture in the form of a TV drama.”
Gu Jinglu contributed to this report.
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