| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $857.8 billion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
3.1% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $17,800 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 3.6%
industry: 36.4%
services: 60% (2003 est.) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
4% (2001 est.) |
| Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : |
lowest 10%: 2.9%
highest 10%: 22.5% (1999 est.) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
3.6% (2003 est.) |
| Labor Force : |
22.92 million (2003) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
agriculture 8.8%, industry 19.1%, services 72.1% (2001) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $135.5 billion
expenditures: $128.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $23.5 billion (2003) |
| Industries : |
electronics, telecommunications, automobile production, chemicals, shipbuilding, steel |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
5.1% (2003 est.) |
| Electricity - Production : |
290.7 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 62.4%
hydro: 0.8%
nuclear: 36.6%
other: 0.2% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
270.3 billion kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
rice, root crops, barley, vegetables, fruit; cattle, pigs, chickens, milk, eggs; fish |
| Exports : |
$201.3 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
Semiconductors, wireless telecommunications equipment, motor vehicles, computers, steel, ships, petrochemicals |
| Exports - Partners : |
China 20.1%, US 17.9%, Japan 8.4%, Hong Kong 5.2%, Taiwan 4.3% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$175.6 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil, steel, transport equipment, organic chemicals, plastics |
| Imports - Partners : |
Japan 20.5%, US 14.2%, China 11.8%, Saudi Arabia 5.1% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$130.3 billion (2003 est.) |
| Economic Aid - Donor : |
ODA $200 million |
| Currency : |
South Korean won (KRW) |
| Currency Code : |
KRW |
| Exchange Rates : |
South Korean won per US dollar - 1,191.61 (2003), 1,251.09 (2002), 1,290.99 (2001), 1,130.96 (2000), 1,188.82 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
Calendar Year |
