The dye industry is the most advanced equipment industry in the field of specialty chemistry which requires highly advanced technology.
Futhermore, as the most of the items are confined within the material patent of advanced nations, it is next to impossible to copy or use technology by stealth. In other words, the Korea dye industry is highly dependent upon import now.

On the other hand, its potentials for market is substantial in terms of opening up a new market and developing new dyestuffs since European dyestuff businesses have been losing competitiveness due to the decline of the industry and rise in costs, along with environmental costs, leading to production reduction and merger, with the trend of moving their production base to Asian regions like China or India.

Aside from the fact that the competitiveness in the dyestuff industry both home and abroad, by low and medium prices of China and India with the development of dye's proper colors and dyestuffs which can be applied to new fiber along with the development of fiber triggered by constant technique development and quality improvement by the related industry, the potential growth for the dyestuff industry is limitless.

The prerequisite to Korea's dyestuff industry is to secure medium technology power along with human resources for research and development as well as security of machinery and materials, development of environment-friendly new dyestuffs and high-functional pigment.

One step further, product development, technology development and production sections should be combined organically with one another.
It is expected that for the years to come, dye works will have to go through downsizing due to the slow business of fiber, leading to replacing advanced import dyestuffs with national one for its cost reduction, while the number of dye works will increase by what with technical support for dyeing and manufacturing and what with supply with appropriate quality of dye.