Improved Japan-Korea relations...Japanese beer imports ranked first for the first time in five years = South Korea

In South Korea, it was revealed last year that Japan overtook China for the first time in five years and regained the number one beer importing country. This is the first time since the Japanese government imposed restrictions on semiconductor exports to South Korea in 2019.
be. Meanwhile, due to the so-called "urinating incident" at Tsingtao Beer, China has fallen from the number one importing country to the number three. According to trade statistics from the Korea Customs Service on the 17th, the import value of Japanese beer last year
The amount increased by 283.3% from the previous year to $55,516,000 (approximately 8.2 billion yen), making it the number one importing country. This is the first time in five years since 2018 that Japanese beer has ranked first in import value.
Japan's beer import value dropped from 1st place in 2018 to 2nd place in 2019, and 9th place in 2020 and 2021, but rose to 6th place in 2022.
It returned to number one. This is because relations between Japan and South Korea have improved since last year's Japan-South Korea summit meeting, and the boycott of Japanese beer that had continued since export control measures has subsided. Due to the boycott, large supermarkets
Japanese beers such as Asahi Sapporo, which had disappeared from the shelves of supermarkets and convenience stores, are now appearing.
Meanwhile, Chinese beer, which ranked first in import value in 2022, fell to third place last year.
This appears to have been caused by the controversy surrounding the release of a video of a man entering the malt storage area and urinating at China's Qingdao Beer Factory in October last year.