European countries and the United States were the main investment targets of ROK entrepreneurs in the early 1990s, but Asian countries, particularly China, have become ROK's business focus over the past decade, said Zhang Wenkui, director of the enterprise research institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council, at the forum.

ROK companies invested more than 8 billion US dollars around the world in 2004, including 6 billion US dollars in China. China has attracted more than 35 billion US dollars in capital from ROK enterprises, statistics from Chinese and Korean businessmen forum show.

The 5-billion-US dollar investment in China in 2006 has earned nearly 30 billion US dollars to Samsung Electronics, almost half of the company's global business income, Zhang said.