2006年7月中旬,1万多名头缠红带的民众连续几天在首尔举行示威游行,试图阻止正在谈判中的韩美自由贸易协定。示威队伍另一边则是数千名严阵以待的防暴警察。他们手持盾牌和水龙头,背靠防暴大巴,组成“人墙”,守护着美国大使馆等地的交叉路口。在韩国,这样的壮观场面几乎每天都 In mid-July 2006, over 10,000 red-band people staged a demonstration in Seoul for days to try to stop the Korea-US free trade agreement being negotiated. On the other side of the demonstration are thousands of riot police waiting in the red. They armed with shields and faucets, backed by riot buses, formed a “human wall” and guarded the embassies and other places of intersection. In South Korea, such spectacular scenes are almost daily