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During and after World War I, the dependency of Choson trade on Japan had increased than before. Shipping in and out for the trade with Japan had increased to 1.5 times in 1931 based in 1920. However, the amount of export and import with other nations except Japan had dropped to the level of 50%. Deepened reliance on Japan took a crucial role in stagnation or decrease of the trade with other nations. Despite the balance-of-trade deficit in foreign trade had enlarged, the balance-of-trade surplus with Japan had continued due to the soaring shipment of rice to Japan, which was the remarkable character of the trade structure in that period. The rate of decrease or increase of trade in that period was not stable, yet as a whole, the rate was decreased; it fell off sharply in 1930 and 1931 when the world economy was seized with panic. However, the trade with Japan was still on the way up: the rate was even more increased. The proportion of shipment to Japan reached 95.1% of the whole export and the shipping in from Japan took 80.5% of the whole import, in which was found the traits of the trade relationship between the colony and the ruler. The trade in Asia except Japan was reinforced: the proportion of trade in Asia in the whole export and import reached to 97.85 and 79.9% respectively. Considering the trade with Japan, foreign trade of Choson was concentrated only in Asia. The items of export goods including shipment to Japan reflected on the role Choson as a colony: supplier of foodstuffs and raw material goods; buyer of industrial products. Top ranking export goods were rice, beans, raw silk, fresh fish, and grinned cotton, which all shipped to Japan. Top ranking import goods were millet, shirtings and sheetings(gray), rice, coal, and wood, which mostly imported from Japan and China. The most remarkable thing was the distorted structure of the trade that shipped rice to Japan and on the other hand, imported millet which was cheaper and far behind in quality compare to rice. All in all, even though the proportion of the Choson trade has enlarged, the basic character of a colony, a supplier of foodstuffs and raw material goods and buyer of industrial products, was even more unbreakable.