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Koreans and Japanese in Southeast Asia
10/2009
Introduction
Long-term investments require safety and stability. A country aiming to attract
foreign investment that will increase its development and help bring lasting
prosperity for its citizens needs to offer political and economic stability.
Without it international investors will stay away.
In general, Asian investors maintain a much longer-term view on their
investments than Western companies tend to have. Short-term shareholder value
that is reviewed every financial quarter is alien to Asian enterprises. They
might take more time to decide whether or not to invest abroad but when they do
this decision is part of a long-term strategy that allows the company to
overcome (minor) periods of instability as long as the longer-term prospects
are positive.
Movements of Japanese
To evaluate the development of Japanese presence in Southeast Asia it is
necessary to make a distinction between the Japanese diaspora that left the
country centuries ago and the investment community that ventured abroad since
the 1970s.
Members of the Japanese diaspora are called 'nikkei'. Nikkeijin are Japanese
who have emigrated out of Japan permanently and their offspring, not those who
have left the country only temporarily. Nikkei includes those who have
assimilated completely in their new home countries and those who (still) hold
dual nationality.
Korean migration
Large scale presence of South Koreans in Southeast Asia is a much more recent
phenomenon than that of Japanese. The development of their numbers in Southeast
Asian countries are a much clearer indication of how they perceive the
stability of the country they chose to live and often invest in.
South Korean wealth is a very recent development. Until the early 1970s, North
Korea had a higher per capita GDP and its citizen were overall better off than
their South Korean counterparts.
Investment developments
Korean FDI are clearly favouring Vietnam and the Philippines since the start of
the century. Also Indonesia is benefitting from an increased Korean attention.
Korean FDI into Thailand is also growing but the country is not Korea's first
choice. FDI from Japan still favours Thailand but also Vietnam and India.
In the Philippines, the Koreans see opportunities in the service and
hospitality industries, Vietnam is attractive for manufacturing and Indonesia
offers natural resources and agricultural investments.
Conclusions
The well developed sense for (personal) safety many Japanese and Koreans seem
to posses make them very sensitive for (potential) danger and stimulates an
attitude of risk avoidance re. international investment opportunities.
Of course they will mobilize all available resources to determine the validity
and safety of the business deal, local investment or foreign opportunity. But
professional international opportunities are directly related to personal
safety. A high potential return against (great) personal risk is not appealing
to Japanese and Koreans.
