Reply #9: South Korea?

[reggie the dog]

they have a pretty high standard of living dont they?

from wikipedia "South Korea has a market economy which ranks 15th in the world by nominal GDP and 12th by purchasing power parity (PPP), identifying it as one of the G-20 major economies. It is a high-income developed country, with an emerging economy,<5> and is a member of OECD. South Korea is one of the Asian Tigers, and is the only developed country so far to have been included in the group of Next Eleven countries."
"Economy of Canada
Rank 10th (nominal) / 14th (PPP)"
it is comparable to Canada and i really have nothing against free trade with canada either. South Korea is not. South Korea is actually ahead of France and Switerland as far as H.D.I. rankings from the U.N. go.