(From Korea Beat)

This is an issue that’s been intense for awhile, which most students will have some form of opinion on.

To familiarize yourself with the history, here’s a useful article that shows the chronology of the dispute.

Your students might also find it interesting to read a US-based article on how US media is covering the issue. Anyways, a glut of conversation topics can come from this. Mad cow. Asian flu panics. Free-trade disputes.