Korea food and drug safety department analysis said Korea showed rapid growth of domestic cosmetics export mainly consists of three main reasons. Is Korea cosmetic quality increase; the second is Korea cultural industry enter a growing influence in Asia; the third is Korea to China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Thailand, significant growth in exports.

In the type of products, anti aging class, sunblock, such as whitening functional cosmetics in the share of total exports reached 32.2%, topped

Korea food and drug safety Department released on May 28, statistics show 2013 Korea domestic cosmetics exports reached $ 1,283,410,000, compared with soaring 20.3%, imports fell 0.6%. Thanks to this, 2013 the annual Korea cosmetics industry achieved a surplus of us $ 311.45 million in 2012, $ 89.26 million rose by more than twice.

In 2012, Korea cosmetics to Japan exports in Korea cosmetics accounted for the highest proportion of total exports, up to 23.4%. But from 2013 onwards, Korea cosmetics exports to China increased rapidly, China's share of exports in total exports reached 22.3%, the proportion surpassed Japan totals.