{"id":44582,"date":"2026-03-23T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44582"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:36:37","slug":"s-koreas-exports-grow-50-4-pct-in-20-days-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/s-koreas-exports-grow-50-4-pct-in-20-days-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea&#8217;s exports grow 50.4 pct in 20 days of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>South Korea&#8217;s exports grew in double digits in the first 20 days of March due to soaring demand for locally-made semiconductors, customs office data showed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Outbound shipment jumped 50.4 percent from a year earlier to 53.30 billion U.S. dollars in the March 1-20 period, according to the Korea Customs Service.<\/p>\n<p>Semiconductor exports more than doubled to 18.66 billion dollars, and automotive shipment mounted 11.1 percent to 3.66 billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Exports for oil products, steel products, mobile devices and home appliances swelled in double figures, and shipments for computers surged in triple digits.<\/p>\n<p>Imports gained 19.7 percent from a year ago to 41.17 billion dollars in the first 20 days of March, sending the trade surplus to 12.13 billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Imports for crude oil, coal, chips, semiconductor equipment, precision machinery, and mobile devices posted a double-digit growth in the cited period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s exports grew in double digits in the first 20 days of March due to soaring demand for locally-made semiconductors, customs office data showed Monday. Outbound shipment jumped 50.4 percent from a year earlier to 53.30 billion U.S. dollars in the March 1-20 period, according to the Korea Customs Service. Semiconductor exports more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44583,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44582\/revisions\/44583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}