This paper identifies four factors that cluster belief about importance of barriers to export held by exe-cutives of small-and medium sized manufacturing firms in Kwangju and Chonnam provinces.
These factors were evaluated in respect to the international business literature and labeled as exporting products, national export policy, competitive within foreign markets, comparative marketing distance.
This analysis revealed a high appreciation of the importance of exporting products and a minor appreciation of the barriers provided by comparative marketing distnace. The other two factors assumed intermidiate positions of importance among the four factors.

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