남북한 무역결합도와 교역구조 분석

An Analysis on The Trade Intensity and Structure between South and North Korea

This paper analyzes the economic cooperation and trade structure between South and North Korea which are essential to the reunification of Korea. With the summit meeting of the South and North Korea, the South and North Korean Intra-trade will be increased sharply, and so will be highly needed to analyze the current trade structure of South and North Korea. To do this, this paper uses the Trade Intensity index and Grubel-Lloyd Intra-Industry Trade index. In terms of Trade Intensity index, we can find that the trade intensity between South and North Korea has rapidly increased as the two Korea deepens Inter-dependent economic relationship especially in the middle of 1990 s. Furthermore North Korea s trade is more dependent on South Korea during 1990 s. Until year 1994, South Korea s export is very lowly dependent on North Korea, but North Korea s export is greatly dependent on South Korea since year 1991. In terms of Grubel-Lloyd Intra-Industry Trade index, there have been a lot of intra-industry trade in the textile goods, steel and metal products. Even though the economic relationship between two Koreas has been more developed in 1990 s, there still exists something to be developed. To vitalize the economic cooperation and trade between South and North Korea, two Korea should expand mutual understanding in economic cooperations and also be efficiently coordinated in the trade, tax, investment systems.