It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that the country made the most progress ever in the area of free trade agreements last year.

Forging the bilateral partnership with the U.S. will make it easier for Korea to seek FTA pacts with China and Japan. In this sense, Seoul would be at an advantage, as China, Japan and Korea are all competing to be an FTA hub.

We've been a country for 150 years but made no progress. This should be a rich country but where has all the money gone? Corruption!

If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.

The unity of the country, the forward progress of the country would be lost. There are elements of ethnic cleansing, getting a minority community out of an area so that the majority community can take over, in certain parts of Iraq.

Every time I come back here, I see progress, ... . . . This part of the country is changing. You're moving forward.