Ministry of Economy and Finance

The consumer price index (CPI) in February 2025 rose by 2.0% compared to the same month of the previous year (2.2% in January 2025) as the upward trend in petroleum product prices slowed. Core inflation, which reflects the underlying trend by excluding volatile food and energy pr...

Mar 06,2025

Financial Services Commission

Vice Chairman Kim Soyoung of the Financial Services Commission traveled to Cambodia and the Philippines between March 3 and 7 in an effort to promote financial cooperation with these countries and support overseas expansion of K-Finance. Visit to Phnom Penh, Cambodia Vi...

Mar 06,2025

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

The First Meeting of the APEC 2025 Policy Partnership on Food Security Discussed Cooperation for Food Security Sejong, 6 March 2025 — The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) held the first meeting of the APEC 2025 Policy Partnership on Food Secu...

Mar 06,2025

Ministry of Economy and Finance

The Consumer Price Index was 116.08(2020=100) in February 2025.  The index increased 0.3 percent from the preceding month and rose 2.0 percent from the same month of the previous year. Please refer to the attached pdf for the full report.

Mar 06,2025

Ministry of Environment

▷ Agreement to hold a commemorative ceremony for the OECD ‘ASEAN+3 Plastic Outlook’ in line with hosting the World Environment Day in Korea▷ Promotion of technological support cooperation with UNESCO to enhance water security in developing countries, including flood for...

Mar 06,2025

Ministry of Economy and Finance

The global credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P)* will visit Korea from March 10th (Monday) to March 14th (Friday) to conduct its annual consultation for the sovereign credit rating assessment.   * S&P Annual Consultation Team: KimEng Tan, Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Sov...

Mar 06,2025

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

After U.S. President Donald Trump stated in his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4 (local time) that Korea’s average tariff rate is four times higher than that of the U.S., multiple media outlets reported on the comment. Under the Korea-U.S. Free Trade A...

Mar 05,2025

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea and Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) held the second Korea-Spain Industrial Technology Cooperation Joint Committee (“Joint Committee”) meeting today in Ma...

Mar 05,2025

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT, Minister PARK Sang-woo) announced last month (01:00 a.m. 26 February 2025, KST) that Hyundai Rotem won contracts to supply 240 inter-city metro railcars and 200 intra-city ones among the four types of railcar supply proj...

Mar 05,2025

Statistics Korea

○ The online shopping transaction value marked 21.8674 trillion won in January 2025, rising 1.3% from January 2024. ○ The mobile shopping transaction value marked 17.2717 trillion won in January 2025, rising 5.9% from January 2024. For more information, refer to the att...

Mar 05,2025