AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
SOUTH KOREA'S MARCH EXPORTS CLIMB 14 PCT TO US$30.6 BLN.
SEOUL, April 2 Asia Pulse - South Korea's exports grew at a double-digit rate for the 14th straight month in March, fueled by strong overseas demand for semiconductors, ships, petrochemicals and steel, a government report said Monday.
Overseas shipments grew 14 per cent year-on-year to US$30.6 billion last month, according to the report by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy. In February, exports climbed 10.5 per cent from the previous year to $26.2 billion.
March's imports increased 12.1 per cent to $2.91 billion, the ministry said, adding that the nation posted a monthly trade surplus of $1.5 billion last month. The monthly surplus represents a gain of $620 million from March 2006.
On a daily basis, the country exported an average of $1.30 billion worth of goods in March, up from $1.28 billion in February. South Korea has been exporting an average of more than $1 billion a day since September 2005.
The South Korean economy, Asia's third largest, is expected to grow around 4.5 per cent this year, fueled by resilient exports.
"Despite concerns that the appreciation of the won would start to hurt exporters, all figures indicate that most companies are coping well and have expanded overseas volume," said Oh Jung-kyu, head of the ministry's trade investment promotion bureau. He said this is a indication that South Korean products have become more ...
- SOUTH KOREA. Seoul. 1987. South Korean paramilitary. South Korea's economic...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Philip Jones Griffiths January 1, 1987 700+ words
...Seoul. 1987. South Korean paramilitary. South Korea's economic development...seoul. 1987. south korean paramilitary. south korea's economic development...seoul. 1987. south korean paramilitary. south korea's economic development...
- KEY SOUTH KOREAN FIGURES IN SOUTH KOREA-EU FREE TRADE TALKS.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News July 16, 2007 700+ words
...July 16 Asia Pulse - South Korean and European Union negotiators...profiles of two key South Korean officials leading the...Kim, 48, joined South Korea's Ministry of Foreign...role models" for South Korean bureaucrats, citing...
- Key South Korean figures in South Korea-EU free trade talks.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea May 6, 2007 700+ words
...May 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean and European Union negotiators...profiles of two key South Korean officials leading the...Kim, 48, joined South Korea's Ministry of Foreign...role models" for South Korean bureaucrats, citing...
- Key South Korean figures in South Korea-U.S. FTA talks.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea March 31, 2007 700+ words
...profiles of two key South Korean officials who could...Organization, Kim joined South Korea's Ministry of...role models" for South Korean bureaucrats, citing...international trade. Since South Korea and the U.S...people ask me why South Korea wants to ...
- Nokia breaks with South Korean phone manufacturer. (South Korea).(Telson...
- Newspaper article from: Asia Pacific Telecom January 1, 2003 700+ words
...it will stop selling phones in South Korea made by local manufacturer, Telson...has struggled to penetrate the South Korean market. Analysts estimate that Nokia's market share in South Korea is as little as 1 or 2 percent...
- Moribond; South Korean corporate finance; South Korea's corporate-bond...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 16, 2000 700+ words
ON DECEMBER 8th, the South Korean government decided to do something about the country's desperately...when Daewoo collapsed, says Mr Jang. The loss of confidence in South Korea's capital markets is of particular concern because corporate...
- Plastic bubble; South Korean consumers.(South Korea's borrowing...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 20, 2002 700+ words
Consumer credit fuels South Korea's boom NO LONGER are the chaebol, South Korea's conglomerates, the country's biggest borrowers...speed of this loan growth raises questions about South Korea's consumers and about the economy's continuing...
- The strange story of South Korea's sympathy for a spy; A returned South Korean...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor November 25, 2003 700+ words
...Monitor SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- When Song Doo...current generation of South Korean students, Mr. Song escaped South Korea's dictatorship...his return that South Korea has now "changed...change, since under South Korean law collaboration...
