Shrimp to Whale: South Korea’s Extraordinary Transformation
The Korea Society
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The Long Shadow That Japan Casts Over South Korea
I think right now it's a different context in the sense that there's direct competition, but this is very much market driven. Of course there's always politics to read, right? But it's market driven because you have Korean companies and Japanese companies competing against each other. And this regardless of the political situation between South Korea and Japan, you have companies competing in the same sectors. This is not a politician in Seoul thinking, oh, we want to surpass Japan in a trade with Southeast Asia. You may have seen the recent article earlier this week,. ...that trade between South Korean and Southeast Asia now is almost at the same level as trade between Japan and Southeast Asia. They have basically reached
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