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3-MO 4.26% -1bp 6-MO 4.36% -1bp 1-YR 4.51% +1bp 2-YR 4.79% +2bp 3-YR 4.86% +1bp 5-YR 4.94% unch 7-YR 5.02% -2bp 10-YR 5.12% -3bp 20-YR 5.47% -6bp 30-YR 5.42% -6bp 3-MO 4.26% -1bp 6-MO 4.36% -1bp 1-YR 4.51% +1bp 2-YR 4.79% +2bp 3-YR 4.86% +1bp 5-YR 4.94% unch 7-YR 5.02% -2bp 10-YR 5.12% -3bp 20-YR 5.47% -6bp 30-YR 5.42% -6bp 3-MO 4.26% -1bp 6-MO 4.36% -1bp 1-YR 4.51% +1bp 2-YR 4.79% +2bp 3-YR 4.86% +1bp 5-YR 4.94% unch 7-YR 5.02% -2bp 10-YR 5.12% -3bp 20-YR 5.47% -6bp 30-YR 5.42% -6bp 3-MO 4.26% -1bp 6-MO 4.36% -1bp 1-YR 4.51% +1bp 2-YR 4.79% +2bp 3-YR 4.86% +1bp 5-YR 4.94% unch 7-YR 5.02% -2bp 10-YR 5.12% -3bp 20-YR 5.47% -6bp 30-YR 5.42% -6bp 3-MO 4.26% -1bp 6-MO 4.36% -1bp 1-YR 4.51% +1bp 2-YR 4.79% +2bp 3-YR 4.86% +1bp 5-YR 4.94% unch 7-YR 5.02% -2bp 10-YR 5.12% -3bp 20-YR 5.47% -6bp 30-YR 5.42% -6bp 3-MO 4.26% -1bp 6-MO 4.36% -1bp 1-YR 4.51% +1bp 2-YR 4.79% +2bp 3-YR 4.86% +1bp 5-YR 4.94% unch 7-YR 5.02% -2bp 10-YR 5.12% -3bp 20-YR 5.47% -6bp 30-YR 5.42% -6bp
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South Korea's exports doubled to $61.6bn in the first 20 days of October, with chips at 44.7 percent

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An aerial view of container terminals lining a broad shipping channel at Busan, with stacked containers, gantry cranes, wooded hills and islands in a hazy sea beyond.
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$61.6bn. That is what South Korea exported from October 1 through 20, more than double the $30.0bn of the same stretch a year earlier, according to provisional Korea Customs Service figures. Imports rose 42.8 percent to $47.1bn, leaving a surplus of $14.5bn.

The calendar flatters the comparison. This year's window held 13 working days against 10.5 last year, and on a daily basis exports averaged $4.74bn, up 65.9 percent and the highest the service has recorded for the first 20 days of any month.

Semiconductors supplied $27.5bn, up 222.5 percent. That is 44.7 percent of all exports, a share 16.2 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

Shipments to China rose 154.4 percent to $16.7bn and to the United States 154.9 percent to $10.8bn. The service warns that short-period figures move with working days and that some numbers may change until annual statistics are confirmed in February 2027.

The document: Korea Customs Service, October 1 to 20 export and import figures, provisional, October 21, 2026.

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