Imports of Japanese beer hit over 3-year high

• Published date: 07 March 2023
• Publication title: The Korea Times

Korea's imports of Japanese beer hit the highest level in more than three years in January amid a waning anti-Japan campaign here, data showed Tuesday.

The country brought in slightly over $2 million worth of Japanese beer in January, up a whopping 315 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Korea Customs Service and the liquor industry.

It marks the largest monthly figure since July 2019, a month before Koreans launched a boycott of Japanese goods in protest of Tokyo's export restrictions of some materials for chips and displays to Seoul.

Japan made the move as Korea's top court ordered two Japanese companies to compensate Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor in 2018. Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910-45.

Imports of Japanese beer were just above $4 million in July 2019, but tumbled to $223,000 a month...