한국 부품 및 소재산업의 대일 경쟁력 추이와 발전전략

Korea’s Development Strategies for the Parts and Materials Industry against Japan

This research aims at analyzing and evaluating the export & import competitive power of major trade items with Japan in detailed manner as well as devising the countermeasure strategy for improving the adverse condition of trade with Japan. To achieve these goals, first, competitiveness index (CI) of major trade items toward Japan and the world will be calculated as follows. After that, based on this, the competitive power matrix toward Japan and the world and the transition of competitive power of the items concerned will be composed. Lastly, this research intends to suggest effective developing plan to domestic industrial field after concretely diagnosing the dependency of import from Japan’s and its practice. Here’s what several matters are arranged, which have been found out as a result of analyzing. First, looking into competitiveness index of 30 object items to be analyzed, 29 items are shown to have minus competitive power, except 1 item. And 11 items are found out not having competitive power toward Japan as their competitiveness index are under minus 0.90, and 8 items are falling on the range of -0.89∼-0.80, which is absolutely poor in competitive power, and the rest of 6 items remains on the level of -0.79∼-0.60 in their competitive power. Second, even though the basic factor of adverse condition of trade with Japan has been judged to lie on core parts and materials’ absolute dependency onto Japan, such as flat board display manufacturing-use equipment or silicon wafer, plate glass, it has been found out that, in the background of rapid increase in the recent red figure of trade balance toward Japan, there are several numbers of importing of wide-use products, like steel-related goods (hot-rolling and extruding goods) as well as petrochemistry products. Lastly, we should positively take part in opening up of the growth field in which creation of higher value-added is expected in domestic parts and materials industry itself. For this, a large number of small & medium companies should be present, who will positively do ’risk taking’ with renovative technology and ideas. It is difficult with the attitude of opportunist who would depend only on the support of government and related agencies, without making efforts to bring up self-generating power. It is urgent to build up incentive management system and the evaluation of executive agencies concerned.