'100년 걸린다' 조롱하던 일본… 14년 만에 무너진 '꿈의 소재' 독점

“Korea won’t be able to make it even after 100 years.” The ‘dream material’ that Japan has monopolized and ridiculed for 50 years. The technology that only two countries in the world were capable of producing. Defenses amounting to tens of billions of won every year, resulting in a staggering 14 consecutive years of losses. Executives proposed withdrawing from the business, saying, “Let’s stop now,” and Employees could not even mention the company’s name in front of their children. While 320 billion won vanished, Japan mocked Korea. However, in September 2022, everything turned upside down. That thing that only three countries in the world could produce. That thing 14 times stronger than steel, that won’t break even if 100 adults hang from it. Korea became the third country in the world to achieve it. #KoreaEconomy #JapanExportRestrictions #LocalizationSuccess #CarbonFiber #HyosungAdvancedMaterials #DreamMaterial #KoreaJapanRelations #MaterialIndependence #Aerospace #KF21 #Nuriho #TechnologicalIndependence #RepublicOfKorea #EconomicStory #SeniorEconomy 📚 List of Reference Sources These are the materials referenced when writing this manuscript. Industry News - Hyosung Advanced Materials Develops Ultra-High Strength Carbon Fiber... World's 3rd Following Japan and the US (industrynews.co.kr) Business Post - Hyosung Advanced Materials Develops Ultra-High Strength Carbon Fiber, One Step Closer to Localization of Aerospace Materials (businesspost.co.kr) Newspim - [Exclusive] Government + Hyosung Develop T-1000 Grade Ultra-High Strength Carbon Fiber (newspim.com) Hyosung Official Newsroom - Hyosung Advanced Materials Develops Ultra-High Strength Carbon Fiber (hyosung.com) Kuki News - From Semiconductor Materials to 'Carbon Fiber'... Hyosung Leads ‘Material Independence’ with Proprietary Technology (kukinews.com) Newsis - “Go in when no one else is doing it”… Hyosung Chairman Cho Suk-rae’s ‘Foresight’ (newsis.com) Financial Post - “Leading Carbon Fiber Localization” Hyosung, 2nd Anniversary of the Late Cho Suk-rae (financialpost.co.kr) Yonhap News - HS Hyosung Advanced Materials Makes Follow-up Investment in US-based Trillium… Bio-raw Material Demonstration (yna.co.kr) The Bell - [Hidden Companies Opening the Space Market] HS Hyosung Advanced Materials’ Hidden Card: ‘Carbon Fiber’ (thebell.co.kr) Gas News - Hyosung Advanced Materials, 3rd Expansion of Jeonju Carbon Fiber Plant (gasnews.com) Thelec - HS Hyosung Advanced Materials, Acquires Eco-friendly Certification with Carbon Fiber (thelec.kr) YTN - Future Advanced Material Carbon Fiber, Accelerating Technological Independence (ytn.co.kr) Maeil Business Newspaper - [Case Study] Carbon Fiber, Once Treated as an Ugly Duckling, 35 Years of Steady R&D Investment (mk.co.kr) The Korea Economic Daily - Japan’s Toray’s 30-Year Obsession with Carbon Fiber: We Built Half of the Boeing 787 (hankyung.com) Dong-A Science - [Companies Building Nuri] Composite Materials Withstanding Extreme Space Environments (dongascience.com) Korea Carbon Industry Promotion Agency - Hyosung Jeonju Plant Leads Korea to Become a Powerhouse in Carbon Fiber-Based Advanced Materials (kcarbon.or.kr) TIN News - Japan's Toray Develops 'T2100 Carbon Fiber' (tinnews.co.kr) JoongAng Ilbo - [Innovative Management] Korea's First Development and Commercialization of Carbon Fiber (joongang.co.kr) Kyungnam Ilbo - Professor Kim Heung-gil's Economic Story: Toray, Undisputed World No. 1 in Carbon Fiber (gnnews.co.kr) Hana Financial Investment Report - Hyosung Advanced Materials (298050) Company Analysis (hanaw.com)