View of passenger buses in front of a Lotte Mart in Beijing, China, 2 March 2017. South Korean products are witnessing an unprecedented boycott by the Chinese people as Seoul hastens steps to deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. And the Chinese market is looking for replacements of South Korean products, business insiders said. Many Chinese companies including food, car and cosmetics have already started to boycott and end their cooperation with South Korean partners. Chinese snack maker Weilong's official Weibo account confirmed on Wednesday (1 March 2017) that "we have withdrawn our products from Lotte Mart's stores in China gradually, and we will not cooperate with Lotte in the future anymore." South Korea's Lotte signed an agreement with military on Tuesday (28 February 2017) to provide land for the THAAD deployment. "I will take every product from Lotte off shelf and will not sell their products anymore, never, " Chen Ou, CEO of Chinese cosmetics e-commerce company Jumei International Holding, said on his Weibo account Tuesday (28 February 2017) night.
