China-Oriented Investment of Korean Enterprises Falls 30% Since Thaad Crisis, Says Export-Import Bank of Korea
Liao Shumin
DATE:  Sep 19 2017
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
China-Oriented Investment of Korean Enterprises Falls 30% Since Thaad Crisis, Says Export-Import Bank of Korea China-Oriented Investment of Korean Enterprises Falls 30% Since Thaad Crisis, Says Export-Import Bank of Korea

(Yicai Global) Sept. 19 – Investment by South Korean enterprises in China has plunged 30 percent since March 2017, compared with the year earlier, when Chinese consumers have started boycotting Korean products and enterprises due to a dispute concerning deployment of US Thaad anti-ballistic missile systems to South Korea.

Compared with 2016, the investment scale of the South Korean enterprises in China has slumped 30 percent to USD1.1 billion since March 2017 this year, said Export-Import Bank of Korea. This is the first time in 14 years that China-oriented investment by South Korean firms dropped below USD2 billion.

The China-based production and sales volumes of certain South Korean cosmetics enterprises increased continuously last year. But since March 2017, their business in China has been affected by the Thaad dispute and those South Korean enterprises had to turn to the Southeast Asian market, said employee of a Korean cosmetics firm.

Not only cosmetics enterprises, but others like Hyundai Motor is also distressed due to its decreasing market share in China, the bank said. To turn the business around, Hyundai shifted its marketing focus to India and Vietnam and increased investment in the Southeast Asian market.

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Keywords:   South Korea,Enterprise,Thaad Crisis