finance.foundation / Countries / South Korea
Jurisdiction · KR · KRW
South Korea
- ISO code
- KR
- Currency
- KRW
- Monetary authority
- Bank of Korea
- Policy regime
- Independent, inflation targeting
- GDP
- $1.87tn (2025, World Bank)
- Real GDP growth
- 1% (2025, World Bank)
- Inflation (CPI)
- 2.1% (2025, World Bank)
- Population
- 51.7m (2025, World Bank)
- Listed domestic companies
- 2,653 (2025, World Bank)
- Listed market cap
- 147% of GDP (2025, World Bank)
- Credit to private sector
- 160% of GDP (2024, World Bank)
Annual indicators from World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0), each shown with its observation year — refreshed daily, but the underlying series are annual and only move when the World Bank publishes.
Current readings · refreshed every 3 hours
2.75% Korea base rate · 2026-07-01 · BIS
These are South Korea’s own readings, each on the observation date shown. They are a different kind of figure from the World Bank series above, which are annual and only move when the World Bank publishes.
Covered companies — South Korea
| Company | Ticker | Exchange | Sector | Mkt cap ≈ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung ElectronicsElectronics & Semiconductors | 005930 | Korea Exchange | Technology | $1.2tn |
| SK HynixMemory semiconductors (DRAM, NAND, HBM) | 000660 | Korea Exchange | Technology | $878.5bn |
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
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