Companies from next month can exceed the current limit on corporate investment if their business with North Korea accounts for more than 50 percent of sales.

The Fair Trade Commission on Monday said a Cabinet meeting revised enforcement ordinances of the Fair Trade Act to that effect.

Thus, the limit will not affect companies like Hyundai Asan, whose inter-Korean projects account for more than half of sales, nor others that began operations two years ago and do business mainly with the North.

The commission said the revision is expected to jumpstart economic exchanges between the two Koreas.