Chinanews.com, August 13th. According to Kyodo News, it has been a year since South Korea launched a full boycott of Japanese goods. The government agency "Korea Broadcasting Advertising Corporation" recently released the results of a survey of 1,000 men and women in South Korea. . The respondents who answered that they continue to boycott Japanese goods accounted for 75%, and 70% said that they will continue to boycott in the future, and Japan-South Korea relations may deteriorate in the long term.
Data map: South Korean people boycott Japanese goods.
According to reports, the boycott of Japanese goods broke out due to South Korea’s opposition to the Japanese government’s strengthening of export controls on semiconductor materials in July 2019. Coupled with the blow of the new epidemic, Nissan Motor and other companies that have decided to withdraw from South Korea have also begun to appear.
The survey was carried out in mid-July. There are many types of Japanese products that have not been purchased due to the boycott of the movement, including clothing, alcohol, and daily necessities. 69% of the respondents said that they did not feel inconvenient in their lives even after participating in the boycott. It is said that as a substitute, the Korean people are actively buying domestic products.
According to information obtained by members of the South Korean ruling party from the Customs Service, the import volume of Japanese beer in the second quarter of this year decreased by about 90% compared with the same period last year, and Japanese car imports also decreased by more than 60%.