<P> Eventually all 27 countries that make up the EU along with the EU Parliament, approved the agreement before implementation . South Korea has had significant opposition to previous free trade agreements most especially with the United States . This EU agreement is larger than the United States agreement . However, Hur Kyung - wook, Vice Finance Minister for South Korea, has said that he believes the agreement will go into effect in July 2010 . On 22 March 2011, the citizen group called Lawyers for Democratic Society (민주 사회 를 위한 변호사 모임) announced that there were 160 cases of mistranslated errors in the Korean version of the document . </P> <P> In 2016, five years after the European Union--South Korea Free Trade Agreement has been provisionally put in place, the European Commission announced that EU exports to South Korea increased by 55%; European companies saved € 2.8 billion in scrapped or discounted customs duties; and bilateral trade in goods between the EU and South Korea grew annually, reaching a record level of over € 90 billion in 2015 . </P> <P> In the United Kingdom, Lord Price CVO, Minister of State for Trade Policy, Department for International Trade (DIT), said that the EU - Korea FTA had boosted UK exports to Korea by 111% from 2010 / 11 to 2014 / 15 </P>

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