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This research shows the national competitiveness between Korea and China by analyzing the trade structure of both countries in IT industry. UN COMTRADE Data, from year 2005 to year 2015, has been used in this research. This study applies various means of analytical method including Trade Specification Index, Revealed Comparative Advantage, which are popular methodologies in analyzing the competitiveness of a certain industry between two countries, to our research. The summary of our study is as follows. The trade volume between two countries in IT industry has been doubled between 2005 and 2007 in the world market. As world trades grow in IT industry, both countries’ trade volume shows rapid growth in IT. However, each country shows the different pattern in growth: Chinese market can be considered as an export-driven growth market, and Korean market is like an import oriented growth market. In addition, Korea’s trade volume in IT accounted for 5% of global trade volume while Chinese market presented relatively higher proportion, over 25% in the same industry. The result of competitiveness analysis of each item in IT industry indicates that Korea’s competitiveness is highest in components and is lowest in communication device over China in 2015.