Korea Industrial Union (Federation of Korean Industries, referred FKI) 18 released South Korea industrial competitiveness survey, in which South Korea's semiconductor output this year has surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest. In addition, communication with the textile industry in South Korea were also superior to the Japanese. See declining competitiveness, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe countermeasures it should think again. South Korean commercial sites Business Korea reported to the electronics industry in terms of profitability, South Korea's Samsung Electronics, Panasonic of Japan four times, as the steel and automotive parts manufacturing, the two are evenly matched. South Korea's rapid economic growth in recent years, and significantly narrow the distance with Japan. FKI noted that in 1980, Japan's GDP is 17 times the size of South Korea, in 2010 down to 5.4 times last year, but only four times the gap. Japan, South Korea 2013 GDP of $ 4.9 trillion and 1.221 trillion. Nevertheless, there is still a lot to catch up with South Korea's place, such as Japan have 231 products won global market share in Korea, as South Korea's leading products are only 64. In addition, Japan had 57 Fortune 500 companies squeeze (Fortune500), while South Korea is only 17. Performance of R & D spending in South Korea also still significantly behind in Japan, such as Japan in the fields of science currently has 16 Nobel laureates, while South Korea is one at all. The European Commission announced in 2012 the world's top R & D spending up to two thousand companies, a total of 353 Japanese companies into the list, while South Korea is only 56.