illion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
semiconductors, wireless telecommunications equipment, motor
vehicles, computers, steel, ships, petrochemicals

Exports - partners:
China 21.8%, US 14.6%, Japan 8.5%, Hong Kong 5.5% (2005)

Imports:
$300.4 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil, steel,
transport equipment, organic chemicals, plastics

Imports - partners:
Japan 18.5%, China 14.8%, US 11.8%, Saudi Arabia 6.2% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$235 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$229.3 billion (30 June 2006 est.)

Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $423.3 million (2004)

Currency (code):
South Korean won (KRW)

Currency code:
KRW

Exchange rates:
South Korean won per US dollar - 952 (2006), 1,024.1 (2005),
1,145.3 (2004), 1,191.6 (2003), 1,251.1 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Korea, South

Telephones - main lines in use:
23.745 million (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
38.342 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent domestic and international services
domestic: NA
international: country code - 82; 10 fiber-optic submarine cables -
1 Korea-Russia-Japan, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong, 3 Korea-Japan-China,
1 Korea-Japan-China-Europe, 1 Korea-Japan-China-US-Taiwan, 1
Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan;
satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian
Ocean) and 3 Inmarsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 61, FM 150, shortwave 2 (2005)

Radios:
47.5 million (2000)

Television broadcast stations:
terrestrial stations 43; cable operators 59; relay cable operators
190 (2005)

Televisions:
15.9 million (1997)

Internet country code:
.kr

Internet hosts:
5,433,591 (2005)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
11 (2000)

Internet users:
33.9 million (2005)

Transportation Korea, South

Airports:
107 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 69
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 21
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
914 to 1,523 m: 11
under 914 m: 20 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 38
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 35 (2006)

Heliports:
540 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 1,482 km; refined products 827 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 3,472 km
standard gauge: 3,47