동아시아 국가들의 국제무역분석

International Trade in East Asian Countries

This paper analyzes the international trade linkage effects among Korea, Japan, China, and ASEAN countries using the recent international trade matrix. East Asian countries seem to be divided into 2 groups such as North -East counties and North-East counties. Japan has the highest trade influential coefficient in East Asian regions. Thus Japan contributes and influences the most greatly the trade of other East Asian countries. Recently China influences the other countries considerably greatly in this East Asian region. The trade sensitivity coefficients are the highest in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. As a result of trade structure test, Japan and China have the independent trade structures in East Asian region. ASEAN countries except Singapore have the independent trade structures in East Asian region. Korea has the neutral trade structure and Singapore has the trade enhancing trade structure in East Asian region, respectively. Thus Korea needs to enhance the economic and trade relationship with East Asian countries through the economic cooperation and integration to induce the more mutual trade volume in this East Asian region.