光州· 全南과 日本간 商品交易의 活性化戰略

• 영문명: Strategies for Energizing the Commodities Trade between Gwangju-Jeonnam and Japan
• 발행기관: 한국지역개발학회
• 저자명: 張斗英(Chang, Doo-yung)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국지역개발학회지』제18권 제1호, 83~108쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역개발
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.03.30

영문 초록

This paper is to analyse the economic relations between Gwangju-Jeonnam(G-J) and Japan, and to propose some strategies for energizing the commodities trade. The importance of G-J is relatively small in Korea’s exports to Japan. This region’s trade with Japan is characterized as weak intemational competitiveness of major exports in Japan, heavy dependence of intra-industry trade in core exports, and lack of diversity of strategic exports. The importance of Japanese direct investment is lower in G-J than in other regions, and the investment per firm is sm머1 so that the Japanese direct investment contributes little to strengthening the concentration effect of core regional manufacturing industries. Moreover this region’s trade with Japan has grown slowly during 2000• 2004 to become smaller than trade with China in 2004, but the regional industrial policy is supposed not to be effective to overcome this situation so that the regional industrial structure could be competitive. So the first strategy for promoting this region’s exports to J apan based on sectoral specialization is to establish the strategic regional industrial policy connecting selectively core regional manufacturing sectors and some knowledge-based manufacturing industries driven by local govemments, which aims to create dynarnic comparative advantage. The second one is to construct an industrial network G-J between and a Japanese region which is economically interdependent. This strategy is symbolic in intemational economic cooperation and will lead to enhancing the competitiveness of the region' s industry and obtaining mutually gains from trade and direct investment. In the long run, the network including a region in China, G-J will have to foster the new materials and high-tech parts related to core regional manufacturing industries and the large Japanese direct investment. The final is to apply the third sector to various activities for increasing major exports to Japan and creating some new exportables. The third sector is considered to be placed better than individual regional small-medium companies in improving the image of exports, implementing the effective clistribution system, exploring niche market, and fostering regionally specific business incubation for new exportables.