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HEAD FASHION 行业聚焦 inDUStry foCUS

The Status Quo

of Chinese Hair

Product Industry’s Efforts

to Occupy the

American and

African Market

By Jin Daichen

Explore the Development History of World Hair
Products Together

The 1950s saw the emergence of hair product manufacturing industry in
Japan. The social development is accompanied by the gradual increase in
the labor costs and shortage of the raw material of human hair. As a result,
the hair product manufacturing industry gradually transfers to Hong Kong,
China, a region boasts low labor forces and the raw materials of human hair.
At the beginning of the 1960s, as America restricts the import of hair products
from China, the production and manufacturing base of hair products has to be
transferred. Korea became the optimal choice at that time.

Jin Daichen, the deputy director As the war between north and South Korea just came to an end, Korean
of Hair Product Branch, China economy met its Waterloo and all the industries were to be revitalized. At
Chamber of Commerce for
Import and Export of Light that time, the Korean people simply recycled the use of human hair and sold
Industrial Products and Arts- them in America. Unexpectedly, they received very satisfying response from
Crafts
the market. Then these hair products were produced in large batches and
sold in stores. Gradually, hair product industry became the pillar industry in
the export of Korea and ranked the first place among all the industries that
earn foreign exchange through exports. The hair product industry, as a labor-

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