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The learning curve model is widely used in production planning and cost forecasting, as well as strategic decision making. A company or industry of a country with a steep down-ward learning curve(with high progress rate) for an item is considered to be more competitive than others while other things being equal. The following issues are main focus in this paper. First, to estimate the learning rates of Korea and Japan industry, also to compare the characteristics of learning curves by industries. Second, to review the existence of kinked points on the learning curves by industry, if there are kinked points, how much time span are there between Korea and Japan industries? Third, in general learning effects are composed two factors, the one is pure learning rates, that is, learning by doing, the other one is economies of scale, this paper is to analysis the impact of two factors by industries of Korea and Japan.