Are Korean Distributors Shutting Black Entrepreneurs Out of the Hair Business?

[George Gooney]

Natural>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[unit321]

I probably can get the hook up, being Asian and all, but I don't speak Korean so I am going to have to do something that won't compete directly with existing businesses.

I will create the crotch weave. Extended genital hair weaves for men and women.

 

[Harry Sax]

I probably can get the hook up, being Asian and all, but I don't speak Korean so I am going to have to do something that won't compete directly with existing businesses.

I will create the crotch weave. Extended genital hair weaves for men and women.

 

[L&HH]

I know a chic who is off of that and shes black. Don't know where she gets her stuff from but shes caking.

Go straight to the source, its 2012 its alot easier to do nowadays. Will be on this hustle soon, once this semester's load calms down.

#RGM

 

[blackzeus]

Go straight to the source, its 2012 its alot easier to do nowadays. Will be on this hustle soon, once this semester's load calms down.

#RGM

Can't do it unless you got 7 figures b. But if you do,

 

[L&HH]

Can't do it unless you got 7 figures b. But if you do,

What you mean, you need 7 figures to start? I aint about to open no shop or nothing.

 

[blackzeus]

What you mean, you need 7 figures to start? I aint about to open no shop or nothing.

If you wanna buy from the source, you need that much. Unlike most people here, my international game is pretty serious, I know what I'm talkin' about. So unless you got the scratch, shut the f*ck up and let the Koreans do what they do All jokes aside, if you got that connect like you think you do, do you, nothin' but the best breh

 

[Yakno1]

Koreans Own the Black Beauty Supply Market

US Slave: Koreans Own the Black Beauty Supply Market

 

[jadillac]

White said Koreans succeed in the industry because they support each other, but the Black community does not. “They (Koreans) have the relationships and work within, we laugh at them when they are living together, then they break through and have four stores in our community. But we won’t help each other out. It is a culture thing.” None of the other Black-owned beauty supply stores work together to pool their resources.

Are Korean Distributors Shutting Black Entrepreneurs Out of the Hair Business? | Clutch Magazine

This is all that needs to be said.

It's really a joke if you think about the fact that people who don't even have any use for our hair products are controlling majority of the business. And we let it happen

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Black Cosmetics is big business, Palmers are billionaires. There always some Black Hair/Care event going on.

They get most hair from india, but other asians are doing it too. It's the distributors and they will go with whatever company is paying.

I dont think Black Entrepreneurs are being shut out, It's that its already a strong market and started up black business's are venturing to other avenues.

came in to say this

fukk Korea..go straight to the source

 

[newworldafro]

 

[El Bombi]

I consider any black woman a c00n who buy from these Korean stores.

I never even get gas from a Korean or Indian gas station.

 

[King Poetic]

You can’t mention wigs and weaves without eliciting a chorus of snickers from our readers, but the reality is black women wear them, love them and spend big money to own them. The business of hair extensions is a $9 billion (yes, billion) dollar industry with black women doing much of the spending and little of the selling

The disparity is borne from the Korean monopoly on distribution. It’s not that black female sellers aren’t there, it’s that they’re systematically shut out from acquiring product to sell in their stores by Korean distributors, according to The Florida Courier.

“Getting hair is a huge hurdle, because the distributors are Korean and most times they will only sell to other Koreans. White said, “I have to buy hair through exchange. It is rough, but if I don’t increase my hair game, I won’t be in business next year. It is a cold business in terms of the hair game.

Johnson said that some Korean distributors say they will not sell to stores within so many miles from their other clients, but when she tried to have hair sent to her Aliquippa location, which has no other beauty supply stores, they still would not let her purchase it. She said one distributor also told her the hair she wanted was no longer being sold, but when she went to a local Korean beauty supply store, that same hair was there. When she inquired about it she was told that a local store had told the distributor that if he sold to her, he would no longer buy from him. She said she agrees with location rules, ‘but there needs to be regulations. One Korean store should not be able to dictate the entire industry in one area.”

Whether you personally choose to wear weaves or not, you can agree that every industry, especially a billion dollar one, should be regulated.

And it also makes sense that black women, who make up the majority of consumers, are represented on the other side of the counter.

White has a solution for the current state of the weave business, that reads as a call action to black business owners:

White said Koreans succeed in the industry because they support each other, but the Black community does not. “They (Koreans) have the relationships and work within, we laugh at them when they are living together, then they break through and have four stores in our community. But we won’t help each other out. It is a culture thing.” None of the other Black-owned beauty supply stores work together to pool their resources.

Are Korean Distributors Shutting Black Entrepreneurs Out of the Hair Business? | Clutch Magazine

enough said..

black people can sit up in the hood and complain all they want, but instead of investing money back into there business, they take the money and buy a new escalade and invest in a home in the burbs..

i see these arabs with gas stations and they making a killing.. from selling lottery tickets, cigs, and liquor while nigs sit in front of the store complaining about the man fuking them over

 

[bmoxover]

I consider any black woman a c00n who buy from these Korean stores.

I never even get gas from a Korean or Indian gas station.

Yep, because the white owned stores and gas stations care so much about you right?

 

[I Lord Justice]

But we won’t help each other out. It is a culture thing.” None of the other Black-owned beauty supply stores work together to pool their resources.

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