When it comes to South Korea, a developed asian country, it can be said that it is not unfamiliar, because in the early 21st century, Korean goods were almost everywhere in the streets and alleys of China. For example, the Korean TV series that lasted for hundreds of episodes at that time once made Chinese love it. But now it seems to be a proper soap opera. Of course, in addition to Korean dramas, there are Also Korean mobile phones and Korean cars, such as Samsung and Hyundai Motors, which have swept China.
However, with the continuous development of Chinese science and technology, domestic products have risen now, which means that the share of Korean goods in the Chinese market has gradually shrunk. And now in the Chinese market, there are almost no Korean products, what is the reason for this? According to records, once in Nokia and Motorola's mobile phones are still dominated by yellow screens, Samsung mobile phones have launched color screens, and the price is as high as 3,000 yuan, and people who can take out 3,000 yuan to buy mobile phones in that era can definitely be called local tycoons. As a result, in 2006, South Korea's Samsung mobile phone market share was as high as 16%. The second is South Korea's Hyundai Motor, which once sold 1.06 million units in 2015. You know, in that era, Volkswagen, as a brother in the Chinese auto market, sold 3.5 million vehicles a year, and Korean cars were equivalent to about one-third of Volkswagen.
However, with the gradual rise of China's domestic automobile strength and the continuous rolling of American and Japanese cars, South Korea's Hyundai Motor has seen a sharp decline in the share of the Chinese market. Coupled with the battery door incident of South Korea's Samsung mobile phones, in order to reduce losses, Samsung mobile phones decided to recall nearly 2.5 million mobile phones worldwide, but did not recall mobile phones in the Chinese market. Perhaps at that time, in the eyes of South Korean Samsung, Chinese would not express any dissatisfaction with it. What I didn't expect was that since then, the sales of Samsung mobile phones in China have plummeted, and even indirectly affected the tourism and automotive industries in South Korea.
As a result, Korean goods, which were once everywhere in the streets and alleys of China, have almost disappeared, and it can even be said that they are rarely seen. Many people think that this is restricted, but in fact it is done by the Koreans themselves. If it were not for the arrogance and prejudice of the Koreans, the Chinese, presumably the Samsung market would not have shrunk significantly. Nowadays, after the continuous rise of Chinese domestic brands, the Chinese people have long ceased to follow the Korean Wave.
According to this situation, the Korean Wave is likely to become a passing cloud in the future. It can even be said that Korean goods, which were once popular in China, will one day all withdraw from the Chinese market, which is closely related to China's strength. It can even be said that with the rise of domestic products, the Korean Wave has long been unable to compete with China's domestic products. Coupled with south Korea's past behavior, it is even more hated by the Chinese people. In this case, Korean goods still want to continue to occupy a large number of Chinese markets, which is absolutely unrealistic.
(Text/Hua Qiang)