KOREANS TO BUY 1.8 BILLION DLRS IN U.S. GOODS

  South Korean Foreign Trade Minister
  Rah Woon Bae said his country's firms have agreed to buy 1.8
  billion dlrs worth of U.S. goods during his two-week buying
  trip to the United States.
      Rah said most of the purchases represented shifts from
  Japanese firms to U.S. firms as part of South Korea's effort to
  reduce its seven billion dlr trade surplus with the United
  States.
      South Korea has a five billion dlr trade deficit with
  Japan.
  

