Bank of Korea
Official Foreign Reserves(September 2025)
□ Korea's official foreign reserves as of the end of September 2025 amounted to 422.0 billion dollars.
ㅇ Korea’s official foreign reserves consisted of securities valued at 378.4 billion dollars (89.7%), deposits of 18.5 billion dollars (4.4%), SDRs of 15.8 billion dolla...
Oct 10,2025
Bank of Korea
Balance of Payments during August 2025 (preliminary)
□ During August 2025, the Korean current account registered a surplus of 9.15 billion dollars.
□ Looking at the financial account, net assets increased by 7.88 billion dollars during August 2025.
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Oct 02,2025
Bank of Korea
Interest Rates (Aug 2025)
□ In August 2025, the average interest rate on new deposits was 2.49%, down 2 basis points from the previous month.
― The average interest rate on outstanding amounts of deposits as of end-August was 2.08%, down 4 basis points from the previous month.
□ In August 2025, th...
Sep 30,2025
Bank of Korea
Business Survey and Economic Sentiment Index (ESI) for September 2025
□ The Composite Business Sentiment Index (CBSI) for all industries for September 2025 was 91.6, up 0.6 points from the previous month, but that for the outlook for the following month fell by 3.3 points to 88.5.
― In the manufacturing sector, the CBSI for September 2025 was 93...
Sep 26,2025
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
KRW 96.1 Billion in Support for 16 Local Investment Companies
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE, Minister Kim Jung-kwan) announced that at the 3rd Local Investment Promotion Subsidy Review Committee Meeting, held from September 18 to 19, it decided to provide KRW 96.1 billion in subsidies (including KRW 58.7 billion in natio...
Sep 25,2025
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
Korea’s Retail Industry Grows 3.7% in August
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) announced on September 24 that Korea’s retail industry grew 3.7 percent year-on-year in August 2025, with offline sales falling 3.1 percent and online sales rising 10.5 percent.
MOTIE's monthly retail sales figures are...
Sep 25,2025
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
Private Sector Experts Propose Policies for Critical Minerals Recycling
The Private Expert Committee on Critical Minerals Recycling, which has been operating since April to support the growth of Korea’s critical minerals recycling industry, has identified 31 policy tasks under four key strategies—building industrial foundations, improving...
Sep 25,2025
Statistics Korea
Internal Migration in August 2025
□ The number of internal migrants was 493 thousand persons in August 2025, which fell by 3.5% year-on-year.
□ In August 2025, the internal migration rate (the number of migrants per 100 population) stood at 11.4%, which went down 0.4%p year-on-year.
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Sep 24,2025
Bank of Korea
2023 Updated Input-Output Tables
1. Overview
□ The 2023 Input-Output Statistics are compiled at current prices based on the 2020 benchmark, using mainly the modified RAS method.
□ The 2023 Input-Output Statistics include the input-output tables, as well as the employment tables.
2. Total Supply and Dema...
Sep 24,2025