Was the bath towel invented by China?
1960, a textile factory in Busan, South Korea (inventor: Jin Bikun) invented the bath towel for the first time by using Italian viscose rayon. This invention obtained the utility model patent of Korea Patent Office on 1962, and the patent expired on 1976. In South Korea, this product has become one of the representative successful cases of using patents to prevent others from producing similar products, which has enabled the inventors to obtain huge profits and accumulated sales of 654.38+06 billion copies.
Actually, only China and South Korea use bath towels.
After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in the 1990s, this kind of bath towel was introduced to the mainland with Koreans and Korean businessmen who went to work in Korea. Because there are more exchanges between the north and the south, northerners use them more and southerners seldom use them. Taking a bath with a towel can wash away dead skin and keratin, so Japanese tourists usually buy several towels when they travel to South Korea.