Source: Financial Times [UK]
“South Korea ‘will not fight back’ against US tariffs, its acting president has said, citing the country’s historical debt to Washington ahead of trade talks with Donald Trump’s administration set to begin next week. Han Duck-soo, a technocrat serving as acting president following Yoon Suk Yeol’s removal from office this month by the country’s constitutional court, said ‘the role of the US was huge in making Korea what it is now.’ … In light of this debt of gratitude, Seoul — one of Washington’s closest security allies and economic partners in Asia — would enter negotiations with Trump seeking to find ‘solutions which are more win-win for both, rather than taking their actions as the objective against which we should fight back,’ Han said.” (04/19/25)