Korean FDI, Q2 2021
Korean FDI Posts US $16.50 Billion in Q2 2021
Korean FDI amounted to US $16.50 billion in Q2 2021, rising 26.8 percent compared with the previous year. Korean FDI net outflows were US $12.84 billion, up 57.3 percent from a year ago.
Korean FDI, Q2 2021
(US $billion, %, y-o-y)
|
Korean FDI
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2019
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2020
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2021
|
|
Q1
|
Q2
|
Q3
|
Q4
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Q1
|
Q2
|
Q3
|
Q4
|
Q1
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Q2
|
|
Amount invested (A)
|
15.02
|
17.03
|
14.87
|
17.47
|
14.74
|
13.01
|
10.73
|
18.38
|
11.31
|
16.50
|
|
Change (%)
|
51.9
|
23.2
|
7.6
|
25.8
|
-1.9
|
-23.6
|
-27.8
|
5.2
|
-23.3
|
26.8
|
|
Amount flowed back (B)
|
1.66
|
2.70
|
3.25
|
5.95
|
3.14
|
4.85
|
2.52
|
4.30
|
3.63
|
3.66
|
|
Net amount invested
(A-B)
|
13.36
|
14.33
|
11.62
|
11.52
|
11.60
|
8.16
|
8.21
|
14.08
|
7.68
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12.84
|
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Change (%)
|
73.4
|
19.1
|
0.7
|
9.8
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-13.2
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-43.0
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-29.3
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22.2
|
-33.8
|
57.3
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By industry, Korean FDI focused on finance and insurance (US $5.68 billion), manufacturing (US $3.46 billion), professional, scientific and technical services (US $1.66 billion), wholesale and retail (US $1.41 billion), and real estate and renting (US $1.29 billion),
By country, the top destinations for Korean FDI were the US (US $6.04 billion), the Cayman Islands (US $2.03 billion), China (US $1.59 billion), Canada (US $1.00 billion) and Luxemburg (US $0.90 billion).
Korean FDI withdrawn by industry were finance and insurance (US $1.29 billion), manufacturing (US $0.75 billion), and real estate and renting (US $0.58 billion). By country, they were Cayman Islands (US $0.81 billion), the US (US $0.80 billion) and Luxemburg (US $0.41 billion).
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