Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
FDI Arrivals to Korea Rise 2.7% in H1 2025
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) announced today that foreign direct investments (FDIs) pledged to Korea in the first half of 2025 (Jan-Jun, acc.) decreased 14.6 percent year-on-year to USD 13.1 billion, while FDIs that actually arrived in Korea over the same pe...
Jul 04,2025
Bank of Korea
Balance of Payments during May 2025 (preliminary)
□ During May 2025, the Korean current account registered a surplus of 10.14 billion dollars.
□ Looking at the financial account, net assets increased by 6.71 billion dollars during May 2025.
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Jul 04,2025
Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
Infectious Disease Trends in 2024: What Drove the Surge?
Infectious Disease Trends in 2024: What Drove the Surge?
KDCA Releases Analysis of Notifiable Infectious Disease Trends – Infectious disease cases up 54.5% year-on-year in 2024
- KDCA publishes the 2024 Annual Report on Notified Infectious Diseases in Korea based ...
Jul 03,2025
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
Practice to Avoid Jeonse Fraud
In South Korea, there is a unique housing lease system, which is called Jeonse, paying a large upfront lump-sum deposit to the landlord to be refunded at the end of the lease period. With this regard, to prevent any types of fraud related to that type of housing contract, the g...
Jul 03,2025
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
Korea and China Hold 3rd Supply Chain Hotline Meeting
Director General for International Trade Relations Kim Jong-chul at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea and Director General of the Department of Asian Affairs Wang Liping at the Ministry of Commerce of China led their respective delegations in the third Korea-Chi...
Jul 03,2025
Bank of Korea
Official Foreign Reserves(June 2025)
□ Korea's official foreign reserves as of the end of June 2025 amounted to 410.2 billion dollars.
ㅇ Korea’s official foreign reserves consisted of securities valued at 358.5 billion dollars (87.4%), deposits of 26.5 billion dollars (6.5%), SDRs of 15.9 billion dollars (...
Jul 03,2025
Bank of Korea
2020 Regional Input-Output Statistics
[Introduction]
□ The Regional Input-Ouput Tables, released every five years since 2003, reflect the characteristics of regional industrial structure and regional inflows and outflows and are used to analyze the interdependence re- lationship between regions and industries.
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Jul 02,2025
Statistics Korea
Consumer Price Index in June 2025
□ The Consumer Price Index was 116.31(2020=100) in June 2025. The index remained unchanged from the preceding month and rose 2.2 percent from the same month of the previous year.
◦ The index excluding food and energy was 113.17 in June 2025. The index increased 0.1 percent f...
Jul 02,2025