South Korea's exports hit record high in H1
|South Korea's exports hit an all-time high in the first six months as sales of memory chips and petrochemical products spiked, government data showed Thursday, according to Reuters.
Exports jumped 6.3 percent year-on-year to $296.79 billion in the January-June period.
Exports to China, South Korea's top export market, rose 21 percent. Meanwhile, outbound shipments to the US jumped 1.3 percent.
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