South Korea’s beer imports from China and Japan dropped by one liter last year

Yonhap News Agency, Seoul, January 17th. Thanks to South Korea's sharp increase in Japanese beer imports last year, Japan regained the first place in the imported beer rankings after 5 years. Chinese beer was affected by the "Tsingtao Beer raw material warehouse urination incident" and dropped from the first place. Dropped to third. ​ Trade statistics released by the Korean Customs Service (Customs) on the 17th showed that Japan’s beer imports increased by 283.3% year-on-year to US$55.516 million last year. Since the Japanese government restricted the export of key semiconductor materials to South Korea in July 2019, Japan’s beer imports have The sales volume has dropped sharply, and the ranking has dropped from first place in 2018 to ninth place in 2021. However, as relations between South Korea and Japan improve and the wave of boycotts of Japanese goods subsides, Japanese beer imports gradually pick up, rising to sixth place in 2022 and returning to the sixth place last year. ...