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Attendance at the Co-Hosting Bodies Meeting On the 14th, I attended the 'Second Co-Hosting Bodies Meeting for the 2025 Korea International Livestock Expo' held in the small conference room of the First Livestock Complex.

[Reporter Lee Jang-hee, Korea Farmers' News] Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon held a communication session to encourage practitioners and nurture "Grill Master" as a new job category, utilizing skilled techniques to grill Hanwoo beef and other meats. On August 8, Gyeonggi Province held a "Grill Talk On-site Communication and Discussion Meeting" at the Hanwoo Direct Sales Office in Sunuri Farm, Yongin City. This event is a program of the "2025 Grill Master Competition" held by Gyeonggi Province to train professional Grill Masters and promote livestock consumption. The "Grill Master Competition" is a contest to select experts who showcase the best grilling flavors using G-Mark excellent livestock products. Grill Masters specialize in the task of grilling meat.

In the U.S.-Korea tariff negotiations, the government managed to protect the rice and beef markets, prompting the agricultural sector to express its approval. Following the official announcement on the 31st of last month that the government "agreed not to further open the domestic rice and beef markets," the National Hanwoo Association issued a statement titled "U.S.-Korea tariff negotiations, a valuable achievement in protecting the beef and rice markets." The Hanwoo Association expressed gratitude to the government negotiation team for leading the negotiations with dignity until the end without yielding to the U.S.'s unfair demands, to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs for actively representing the corresponding logic, and to the agricultural, maritime, and fisheries committee members for raising voices against market opening from the farmers' perspective.