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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the two renegotiations of Korea-US FTA from the perspectives of Negotiation Structure and Negotiation Process. In spite of unfavorable negotiation structure in the two renegotiations, Korea had some chances to improve her negotiation power but actually failed to do it. The reason is that Korea did not pay attention to the process of internal negotiations and, as a result, renegotiations were proceeded from the perspective of external negotiations. As a result, Korea has paid lots of social cost in the procedure of ratification. Policy implications can be summarized as follows: 1) Internal negotiation process can improve negotiation power even in the worst negotiation structure; 2) It is necessary for office of the minister for trade in Korea to be revised in the way to support internal negotiations and to take advantage of their result in external negotiations; 3) The desirable attitude for renegotiation is "Recognize the possibility of renegotiation, but control the process".