The ongoing Seoul-Tokyo trade dispute... and resulting boycott... has claimed another victim in South Korea... with sales of Japanese cars crashing in July.<br />The trade ministry said Thursday that Japanese auto sales in South Korea plunged 32 percent on-month to less than two-thousand-seven-hundred units.<br />The figure is also down more than 17 percent from the same month last year.<br />This... as domestic car production reached 360-thousand in July, an on-year increase of 17-point-four percent.<br />Korean auto exports were estimated at 2-hundred-16-thousand last month, up 11-point-six percent the biggest increase since the turn of the year.<br />The rise is largely attributed to booming sales of eco-friendly vehicles and SUVs in North America and in the EU.<br />
