Japanese company’s Korean assets targeted over WW2 row

South Korea keeps waging economic warfare on Japanese competitors by leveraging historical disputes… which were supposedly resolved by the 1965 treaty and the payment of over $800 million in reparations.

After seizing Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.’s assets in a joint venture with POSCO and threatening to do the same with assets owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Korean courts have allowed the seizure of Nachi-Fujikoshi’s stake in Daesung-Nachi Hydraulics Co.

Steel, shipbuilding and industrial machinery. An interesting way to regain control from foreign ownership at a time when Korean companies are being squeezed between Chinese emergence and Japanese resilience…

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/lawyers-seize-nachi-fujikoshi-assets-south-korea-wartime-labor-case/

Picture credits: Kyodo

Nicolas Michelon

Nicolas is a corporate geoeconomics and strategic & business intelligence expert with 25 years of experience in the Asia-Pacific, and more recently in the Gulf and Türkiye. A Managing Partner at Alagan Partners, he advises corporate executives on how to navigate the current geopolitical and geoeconomic environment, mitigate risk and develop prospective scenarios. He is also an Adjunct Professor & Guest Lecturer in geopolitics, geoeconomics and business intelligence at ESCP Business School (France), Galatasaray University (Türkiye), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (Morocco), and Ecole de Guerre Economique (Paris School of Economic Warfare).