South Korea GDP
The total value of everything South Korea produces in a year, at current prices, on a rolling four-quarter basis.
₩2,788.83tn
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Q4 1970 to Q1 2026
Source: FRED series NGDPSAXDCKRQ (IMF International Financial Statistics), quarterly.
South Korea GDP in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In South Korea, GDP rose by ₩207.7tn over the year to Q1 2026, from ₩2,581.15tn in Q1 2025.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in Q4 1970.
Over the past five years it has ranged from ₩2,086.97tn in Q1 2021 to ₩2,788.83tn in Q1 2026.
South Korea is 13th of 62 countries in our GDP by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF via FRED
- Series
- NGDPSAXDCKRQ
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- ₩m
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q1 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Nominal GDP has risen far faster than real GDP through 2026, driven by a semiconductor-led improvement in the terms of trade and a correspondingly large jump in the GDP deflator. The gap between the nominal and real series is genuine, not a data error.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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