Korean FDI, Q3 2021
Korean FDI Posts US $17.01 Billion in Q3 2021
Korean FDI amounted to US $17.01 billion in Q3 2021, rising 58.2 percent compared with a year ago. Korean FDI net outflows were US $12.67 billion, up 54.2 percent from the same period of the previous year.
Korean FDI, Q3 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
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Q3
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Q4
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Q1
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Q2
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Q3
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Q4
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Q1
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Q2
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Q3
|
|
Amount invested (A)
|
15.03
|
17.05
|
14.87
|
17.53
|
14.75
|
13.05
|
10.75
|
18.56
|
11.30
|
16.97
|
17.01
|
|
Change (%)
|
51.9
|
23.5
|
7.6
|
26.2
|
-1.8
|
-23.4
|
-27.7
|
5.9
|
-23.4
|
30.0
|
58.2
|
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Amount flowed back (B)
|
1.66
|
2.69
|
3.25
|
5.98
|
3.14
|
4.85
|
2.53
|
4.31
|
3.67
|
4.04
|
4.33
|
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Net amount invested
(A-B)
|
13.37
|
14.35
|
11.62
|
11.55
|
11.61
|
8.21
|
8.22
|
14.25
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7.63
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12.93
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12.67
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Change (%)
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73.5
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19.4
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0.7
|
10.1
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-13.2
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-42.8
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-29.3
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23.4
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-34.3
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57.6
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54.2
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By industry, Korean FDI focused on finance and insurance (US $7.19 billion), manufacturing (US $3.65 billion), real estate and renting (US $2.37 billion), information and communications (US $1.31 billion), and wholesale and retail (US $0.47 billion),
By country, the top destinations for Korean FDI were the US (US $6.94 billion), the Cayman Islands (US $2.02 billion), Singapore (US $1.05 billion), Luxemburg (US $0.82 billion) and Indonesia (US $0.78 billion).
Korean FDI was withdrawn mostly from finance and insurance (US $1.74 billion), manufacturing (US $0.82 billion), and mining (US $0.43 billion). By country, it was largely withdrawn from the US (US $1.07 billion), Hong Kong (US $0.61 billion) and the Cayman Islands (US $0.61 billion).
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