Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

78% of Dog Breeding Farms Closed Down Their Business as of 21 December 2025Sejong, 2 January 2026 — Until 21 December 2025, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) received business closure notifications from dog breeding farms through local governments. ...

Jan 02,2026

Ministry of Data and Statistics

○ The online shopping transaction value marked 24.1613 trillion won in November 2025, rising 6.8% from November 2024. ○ The mobile shopping transaction value marked 18.5941 trillion won in November 2025, rising 7.9% from November 2024. For more information, refer to the attac...

Jan 02,2026

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR, Minister JK Kim) announced that Korea’s exports in 2025 reached USD 709.7 billion, up 3.8 percent year-on-year, marking the first time exports surpassed $700 billion and the highest annual performance on record. Daily av...

Jan 02,2026

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR, Minister JK Kim) announced the results of the 2025 Survey on Supply and Demand of the Industrial Technology Workforce, which was conducted by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) from August 11 to October 2...

Jan 02,2026

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun held a telephone conversation with Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi on Wednesday, December 31. During the call, the two Ministers discussed P...

Jan 01,2026

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Government of the Republic of Korea welcomes the Joint Statement agreed by Cambodia and Thailand at the 3rd Special General Border Committee on December 27 on an immediate ceasefire, as well as the implementation of the agreed measures including maintaining a 72-hour ceasefir...

Dec 31,2025

Ministry of Data and Statistics

□ The Consumer Price Index was 117.57 (2020=100) in December 2025. The index increased 0.3 percent from the preceding month and rose 2.3 percent from the same month of the previous year. ◦ The index excluding food and energy was 113.83 in December 2025. The index increased 0...

Dec 31,2025

Bank of Korea

Ⅰ. Background of Revision □ The Bank of Korea has undertaken a revision of statistics* on monetary and liquidity aggregates to reflect the publication of the IMF’s revised Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide and structural changes in the financial m...

Dec 30,2025

Bank of Korea

□ The Composite Business Sentiment Index (CBSI) for all industries for December 2025 was 93.7, up 1.6 points from the previous month, but that for the outlook for the following month fell by 1.7 points to 89.4. ― In the manufacturing sector, the CBSI for December 2025 was 94.4...

Dec 30,2025

Ministry of Data and Statistics

1. Production Trend □ The Index of All Industry Production in November increased by 0.9 percent from the previous month. □ The Index of All Industry Production in November increased by 0.3 percent from the same period of the previous year. □ The Manufacturing Production ...

Dec 30,2025