South Korea
13. Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment Statistics
| Host Country Statistical source* | USG or international statistical source | USG or International Source of Data: BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other | |||
| Economic Data | Year | Amount | Year | Amount | |
| Host Country Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ($M USD) | 2018 | 1,720,454 | 2018 | $1,619,424 | https://data.worldbank.org/ country/korea-rep |
| Foreign Direct Investment | Host Country Statistical source* | USG or international statistical source | USG or international Source of data: BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other | ||
| U.S. FDI in partner country ($M USD, stock positions) | 2019 | $35,933 | 2018 | $41,532 | BEA data available at https://www.bea.gov/international/ direct-investment-and-multinational- enterprises-comprehensive-data |
| Host country’s FDI in the United States ($M USD, stock positions) | 2018 | $105,272 | 2018 | $57,263 | BEA data available at https://www.bea.gov/international/ direct-investment-and-multinational-enterprises-comprehensive-data |
| Total inbound stock of FDI as % host GDP | 2018 | 13.0% | 2018 | 14.3% | UNCTAD data available at https://unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/ World%20Investment%20Report/ Country-Fact-Sheets.aspx |
*ROK Sources: GDP – http://ecos.bok.or.kr/ (as of March 2019); inbound FDI – http://www.motie.go.kr ; (as of January 2019) outbound FDI – http://www.koreaexim.go.kr (as of March 2019) portfolio investment – http://www.fss.or.kr (as of January 2019)
| Direct Investment from/in Counterpart Economy Data | |||||
| From Top Five Sources/To Top Five Destinations (US Dollars, Millions) | |||||
| Inward Direct Investment | Outward Direct Investment | ||||
| Total Inward | $224,416 | 100% | Total Outward | $453,621 | 100% |
| United States | $35,933 | 16% | United States | $105,272 | 23% |
| Japan | $33,859 | 15% | China, P.R.(Mainland) | $64,900 | 14% |
| Netherlands | $27,984 | 13% | China, P.R.(Hong Kong) | $26,477 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | $15,128 | 7% | Vietnam | $20,579 | 5% |
| Singapore | $14,959 | 7% | Australia | $14,654 | 3% |
| Portfolio Investment Assets | |||||||||||
| Top Five Partners (Millions, US Dollars) | |||||||||||
| Total | Equity Securities | Total Debt Securities | |||||||||
| All Countries | $566,319 | 100% | All Countries | $462,961 | 100% | All Countries | $103,358 | 100% | |||
| United States | $206,440 | 36% | United States | $198,268 | 43% | China | $21,879 | 21% | |||
| United Kingdom | $44,004 | 8% | United Kingdom | $37,803 | 8% | Swiss | $17,748 | 17% | |||
| Luxembourg | $35,698 | 6% | Luxembourg | $29,031 | 6% | Singapore | $10,131 | 10% | |||
| Singapore | $35,465 | 6% | Singapore | $25,334 | 5% | United States | $8,172 | 8% | |||
| China | $31,022 | 5% | Ireland | $16,970 | 4% | Luxembourg | $6,667 | 6% | |||