Korea · Trade
Korea’s trading partners
Korea’s 60 biggest trading partners — together 97.6% of all its trade — each with its own page: how big a share of Korea’s exports and imports it takes, its rank, and whether Korea runs a surplus or a deficit with it. We report shares and ranks, not dollar totals, because the underlying data has a scale break.
Partners Korea runs a surplus with (35)
- China 19.5% of exports
- United States 17.7% of exports
- Vietnam 9% of exports
- Taiwan 7.4% of exports
- Hong Kong 6.7% of exports
- Singapore 2.8% of exports
- India 2.5% of exports
- Mexico 1.6% of exports
- Canada 1.3% of exports
- Philippines 1.8% of exports
- Thailand 1.1% of exports
- Brazil 1% of exports
- United kingdom 0.9% of exports
- Turkey 1.1% of exports
- Poland 1% of exports
- Marshalls Islands 0.8% of exports
- Spain 0.4% of exports
- Belgium 0.5% of exports
- New-zealand 0.4% of exports
- Czech Republic 0.4% of exports
- Liberia 0.5% of exports
- Hungry 0.4% of exports
- Kazakh 0.3% of exports
- Israel 0.2% of exports
- Denmark 0.2% of exports
- Kyrgy 0.4% of exports
- Slovakia 0.3% of exports
- Malta 0.3% of exports
- Bangladesh 0.3% of exports
- Ireland 0.2% of exports
- Colombia 0.2% of exports
- Greece 0.2% of exports
- Bermuda 0.3% of exports
- Egypt 0.2% of exports
- Uzbekistan 0.2% of exports
Partners Korea runs a deficit with (25)
- Japan 7.5% of imports
- Australia 5% of imports
- Malaysia 2.6% of imports
- Germany 3.3% of imports
- Saudi Arabia 4% of imports
- Netherlands 1.9% of imports
- United Arab Emirates 2.2% of imports
- Indonesia 1.7% of imports
- France 1.4% of imports
- Italy 1.3% of imports
- Russia 1.1% of imports
- Iraq 1.1% of imports
- Chile 0.8% of imports
- Qatar 1% of imports
- Kuwait 0.9% of imports
- Switzerland 0.6% of imports
- Algeria 0.6% of imports
- Sweden 0.3% of imports
- Oman 0.5% of imports
- South africa 0.4% of imports
- Peru 0.4% of imports
- Norway 0.3% of imports
- Austria 0.2% of imports
- Democratic Republic of Congo 0.3% of imports
- Papua new guinea 0.2% of imports
All of this is drawn from one dataset — Korea Customs Service trade by partner country. License the structured dataset, or take the free CSV.