Semiconductor exports
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173.4 billionUSD
Korea, Republic of · 2025
Semiconductor exports in Korea, Republic of totalled 173.4 billion USD in 2025 (MOTIR).
- Publisher
- MOTIR
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Paragraph on semiconductor exports
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Exports of semiconductors, Korea's largest export item, rose 22.2 percent year-on-year to an all-time high of $173.4 billion, supported by solid demand from AI data centers and a sharp rise in fixed prices for memory chips.
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- APA
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (Republic of Korea). (2026). Korea's Annual Exports Reach New Highs in 2025. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://english.motir.go.kr/eng/article/EATCLdfa319ada/2470/view. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DT415ADZHTAY84YHVHRHF6HBYT
- MLA
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (Republic of Korea). "Korea's Annual Exports Reach New Highs in 2025." 2026, https://english.motir.go.kr/eng/article/EATCLdfa319ada/2470/view. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DT415ADZHTAY84YHVHRHF6HBYT.
- Chicago
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (Republic of Korea). "Korea's Annual Exports Reach New Highs in 2025." 2026. https://english.motir.go.kr/eng/article/EATCLdfa319ada/2470/view. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DT415ADZHTAY84YHVHRHF6HBYT.
- BibTeX
- @misc{motir2026semiconductorf6hbyt, author = {{Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (Republic of Korea)}}, title = {Korea's Annual Exports Reach New Highs in 2025}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DT415ADZHTAY84YHVHRHF6HBYT}, note = {Original source: https://english.motir.go.kr/eng/article/EATCLdfa319ada/2470/view. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (Republic of Korea) · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Korea's Annual Exports Reach New Highs in 2025
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 2 January 2026
- Locator
- Paragraph on semiconductor exports
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Government open
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_DT415ADZHTAY84YHVHRHF6HBYT