Earlier this month, more than 2,000 demonstrators in Seoul were so determined to disrupt the Korean parliament that riot police had to use water cannon to drive them back.

The cause of such passion? Austerity measures? A political scandal? Not quite. If you ask the protesters, it’s all about the international arbitration clause in their country’s free trade agreement with the U.S.

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