SEOUL, May 7: South Korea and the European Union on Monday started free trade talks aimed at linking Asia's third largest economy to the world's biggest trading bloc.
South Korea, fresh from a landmark pact with the United States, hopes to become a free trade hub linking America and Europe and to steal a march on its export rivals China and Japan.
The EU sees a deal, which Seoul hopes to conclude within a year, as giving it a bridgehead in Northeast Asia.—AFP
