The Trade Ministry in Seoul had pulled a text of the deal from parliament's consideration earlier this month after discovering it was riddled with translation errors, causing huge embarrassment for the government.
The problem has all but shelved a separate free trade deal with the United States, which faces a potentially greater resistance from the country's small but powerful farm lobby, which has said the government has done little to provide relief for the expected damage it will suffer due to the pact.
"The government hopes the South Korea-EU FTA ratification bill will pass the foreign and trade committee and the main assembly," Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan told a briefing.
"We will be getting to the ratification of the U.S. FTA after we conclude EU FTA ratification."
The European Parliament approved the deal in February, clearing the way for the EU's largest bilateral free trade deal to take effect from July as pledged by the two sides.
The pact aims to scrap 98 percent of import duties -- 1.6 billion euros of South Korean duties and 11 billion euros of EU duties -- as well as trade barriers in manufactured goods, farm products and services over the next five years.
The European Union and South Korea signed the pact, which is Europe's first with an Asian country, in October, saying it could double trade between them.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has said the deal would allow Asia's fourth-largest economy to grow at more than 5 percent a year, create thousands of jobs and set a model for international trade relations. (Reuters)
