수입 맥주 시장에서 일본 맥주 3위로 추락<br /><br />Japanese beer has been among the products hardest hit by the ongoing boycott of Japanese goods in South Korea.<br />Once extremely popular in South Korea, they've seen sales plunge over the past several weeks as the boycott picked up steam.<br />Choi Si-young reports.<br />Since 2009,... Japanese beer has been the leading imported beer in South Korea.<br />But new data from Korea Customs Service show sales have significantly dropped since South Koreans began a mass boycott of Japanese goods amid the ongoing trade row between Seoul and Tokyo.<br />According to Korea Customs Service,... South Korea imported just 4-point-3 million U.S. dollars worth of Japanese beer products in July,... down a staggering 45-percent from the previous month's 7-point-9 million dollars.<br />Japanese beer now ranks a lowly third in South Korea's imported beer market,... after Belgium and the United States.<br />In July,... Belgian beer recorded over 4-point-5 million dollars in sales,... an increase of nearly 50-percent from the month before.,... while American beer products saw sales of over 4-point-4 million dollars,... almost doubling from the previous month. Once the most popular imported beer in the nation,... Japanese beer products have already seen a sales decrease of 98-point-8 percent in the first 10 days of August compared to the previous year,... with fewer Koreans seeking to quench their thirst with a can of Japanese beer amid the trade dispute between their two countries.<br />Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.<br />
