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The Development Process and Spatial Characteristics of Sino-South Korean Cross-border Small-scale Trade  

Jang, Young-Jin (Department of Geography Education, Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korean Geographical Society / v.45, no.5, 2010 , pp. 628-646 More about this Journal
Abstract
The subject of this research is the small-scale trade between South Korea and China (this trade is a so-called shuttle trade.) This research attempts to find the background to the emergence of the Sino-South Korean (cross-border) small-scale trade and the role of travel routes between the two countries. This research also aims to identify the development process of the bilateral small-scale trade by studying the scale of the small-scale trade and the organization of small-scale traders. Moreover, this research tries to discover the spatial characteristics of the interregional small-scale trade by reviewing the characteristics of traded goods; process of export and import and nodes of small-scale trade. To accomplish aforementioned purposes, the author discussed the relations between small-scale traders and maritime companies. The author also studied the internal change in the small-scale trade by focusing on the reinforcement of the regulation against the small-scale trade. Lastly, the author cited the case of the Soviet Union and middle-eastern Europe, which tremendously expanded the small-scale trades in the 1980s, in order to explain the growth of the Sino-South Korean small-scale trade.
Keywords
Sino-South Korean (cross-border) small-scale trade; shuttle trade; small-scale trader; node;
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