Abstract: Cultural trade is of vital facilitation to cultural development and cultural industry’s development alike. The international cultural trade mode is influenced by globalization, regionalization, networking and digitization nowadays. In order to develop cultural trade, this paper aims to understand and explore the cultural trade development mode among China, Korea and Japan. On the basis of discussion about the cultural trade mode among China, Korea and Japan, this paper suggests that China, South Korea (hereinafter referred to as Korea) and Japan should be committed to resolving obstacles such as the concept, communication and trade, taking advantage of the similar cultures, close geological distance, closely linked economic trade, competitive and complimentary cultural industry and cultural market, resembling national cultural strategy and policy and the same status as major country of cultural trade and so on to perfect the working mechanism, steadily promote the construction of the cultural trade development mode with mutual opening-up, communication, competition and cooperation to speed up the further development in cultural trade among the three countries.