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Taiwan's rivalry with South Korea reveals anxiety

Economic rivalry has helped fuel Taiwanese suspicion towards cold war friend South Korea, even as Seoul looks past Taipei towards Beijing

Yang Shu-chun of Taiwan cries after she was disqualified from the 2010 Asian Games taekwando competition. Photo: Reuters

When a South Korean television station wrongly reported in October that a group of Taiwanese fish farms were polluted, officials from the island were quick to react to the allegations.

Spurred on by the collective outrage of Taiwan’s aquaculture industry, diplomatic officers lodged a formal complaint with the station – Channel A – which duly atoned for the report.