Economical Profile
Currency (code): South Korean won (KRW)
GDP: $983.3 billion (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $20,300 (2005 est.)
Exports - commodities: semiconductors, wireless telecommunications equipment, motor ehicles, computers, steel, ships, petrochemicals
Exports - partners: China, US , Japan , Hong Kong
Imports - commodities: machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil, steel, transport equipment, organic chemicals, plastics
Imports - partners: Japan , China , US , Saudi Arabia
Agriculture - products: rice, root, crops, barley, vegetables, fruit; pigs, chickens, milk, eggs; fish
Industries: electronics, telecommunications, automobile production, chemicals, ship building, steel
Source: The World Fact Book 2005 (www.cia.gov) |