What sells in Korea, and at what price
Official figures only: customs export values and weights (implied price per kg), official maker list prices, and the public sources we are adding. No scraping of shopping sites.
Export unit prices (customs: value รท weight)
Lithium-ion batteries in Sep 2026: US$27.99 (โฉ37,373) per kg on average (+10.8% year on year); total US$373.7m.
Related listed stocks: LG Energy Solution (373220), Samsung SDI (006400), SK Innovation (096770) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Cosmetics in Sep 2026: US$35.04 (โฉ46,791) per kg on average (+14.1% year on year); total US$1.21bn.
Related listed stocks: Amorepacific (090430), LG H&H (051900), Cosmax (192820), Kolmar Korea (161890), APR (278470) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Cosmetics โ the US in Sep 2026: US$27.55 (โฉ36,785) per kg on average (-0.4% year on year); total US$246.6m.
Related listed stocks: Amorepacific (090430), LG H&H (051900), Cosmax (192820), Kolmar Korea (161890), APR (278470) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Cosmetics โ China in Sep 2026: US$36.46 (โฉ48,684) per kg on average (+34.8% year on year); total US$188.3m.
Related listed stocks: Amorepacific (090430), LG H&H (051900), Cosmax (192820), Kolmar Korea (161890), APR (278470) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Cosmetics โ Japan in Sep 2026: US$39.04 (โฉ52,126) per kg on average (+6.0% year on year); total US$92.2m.
Related listed stocks: Amorepacific (090430), LG H&H (051900), Cosmax (192820), Kolmar Korea (161890), APR (278470) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Instant noodles (ramyeon) in Sep 2026: US$4.13 (โฉ5,509) per kg on average (+4.8% year on year); total US$181.2m.
Related listed stocks: Samyang Foods (003230), Nongshim (004370), Otoki (007310) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Instant noodles (ramyeon) โ the US in Sep 2026: US$4.89 (โฉ6,526) per kg on average (+5.1% year on year); total US$31.3m.
Related listed stocks: Samyang Foods (003230), Nongshim (004370), Otoki (007310) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Instant noodles (ramyeon) โ China in Sep 2026: US$3.77 (โฉ5,039) per kg on average (+4.1% year on year); total US$45.5m.
Related listed stocks: Samyang Foods (003230), Nongshim (004370), Otoki (007310) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Instant noodles (ramyeon) โ Japan in Sep 2026: US$2.93 (โฉ3,909) per kg on average (-2.6% year on year); total US$9.4m.
Related listed stocks: Samyang Foods (003230), Nongshim (004370), Otoki (007310) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Seaweed (gim) in Sep 2026: US$17.89 (โฉ23,890) per kg on average (-17.0% year on year); total US$30.1m.
Related listed stocks: DONGWON F & B CO.,LTD (049770), CJ Cheiljedang (097950) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Popular cars: official list prices
- Avante (Elantra) (Hyundai Motor CO): from โฉ23,980,000 to โฉ31,520,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
- Sonata (Hyundai Motor CO): from โฉ29,430,000 to โฉ37,410,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-07).
- Grandeur (Hyundai Motor CO): from โฉ42,450,000 to โฉ54,000,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
- Tucson (Hyundai Motor CO): from โฉ28,440,000 to โฉ35,410,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
- Santa Fe (Hyundai Motor CO): from โฉ36,570,000 to โฉ45,470,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
- Palisade (Hyundai Motor CO): from โฉ44,780,000 to โฉ72,440,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
- Ioniq 5 (Hyundai Motor CO): from โฉ49,810,000 to โฉ64,470,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
- Sportage (KIA): from โฉ29,440,000 to โฉ36,220,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
- Sorento (KIA): from โฉ36,410,000 to โฉ44,410,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
- Carnival (KIA): from โฉ36,860,000 to โฉ45,920,000 (official price list, as of 2026-10-01).
Most-registered new models per month will come from the Korea Transportation Safety Authority new-registration API (data.go.kr 15059401) after its ํ์ฉ์ ์ฒญ.
New-car registrations and official prices
New-car registrations in Sep 2026: domestic brands 93,865 (-22.6% year on year), imports โ (n/a).
Counts by model start once the car-name codes (์ฐจ๋ช ์ฝ๋) of the Korea Transportation Safety Authority are added to config/kordata/car_cnm_codes.json.
Related listed stocks: Hyundai Motor CO (005380), KIA (000270), KG Mobility (003620) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Phones: official Korean prices
- Galaxy S26: โฉ1,403,600 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: Samsung Electronics (005930) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- Galaxy S26+: โฉ1,601,600 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: Samsung Electronics (005930) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- Galaxy S26 Ultra: โฉ1,947,000 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: Samsung Electronics (005930) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- Galaxy Z Fold8: โฉ2,278,100 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: Samsung Electronics (005930) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra: โฉ2,577,300 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: Samsung Electronics (005930) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- Galaxy Z Flip8: โฉ1,683,000 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: Samsung Electronics (005930) โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- iPhone Duo: โฉ3,290,000 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: no clearly related listed company โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- iPhone 18 Pro: โฉ1,990,000 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: no clearly related listed company โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- iPhone 18 Pro Max: โฉ2,190,000 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: no clearly related listed company โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- iPhone Air: โฉ1,790,000 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: no clearly related listed company โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- iPhone 17: โฉ1,450,000 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: no clearly related listed company โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
- iPhone 17e: โฉ1,150,000 (256GB, official Korean store). Related listed stocks: no clearly related listed company โ related companies for reference, not a recommendation
Coming next (official sources, key or ํ์ฉ์ ์ฒญ needed)
| ํ๊ตญ๊ตํต์์ ๊ณต๋จ ์๋์ฐจ ์ ๊ท๋ฑ๋ก์ ๋ณด (data.go.kr 15059401) | new-car registrations by model / month -> most-registered models | data.go.kr ํ์ฉ์ ์ฒญ (auto) | 005380, 000270 |
| ํต๊ณ์ฒญ KOSIS ์จ๋ผ์ธ์ผํ๋ํฅ | online sales by product category, monthly (food, cosmetics, appliances ...) | KOSIS_API_KEY (free) | |
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| KAMIS ๋์ฐ๋ฌผ ์ ํต์ ๋ณด (aT) | retail/wholesale prices of farm and fishery products | KAMIS_CERT_KEY + ID (free) | |
| ์คํผ๋ท (ํ๊ตญ์์ ๊ณต์ฌ) | petrol and diesel prices by region and brand | OPINET_API_KEY (free) | 096770, 010950 |
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| (์ฃผ)๊ฐ์๋๋ ์ผ์๋ณ ์นด์ง๋ ธ ์ ์ฅ๊ฐ (data.go.kr 15148364) | daily casino visitors, locals vs foreigners | data.go.kr ํ์ฉ์ ์ฒญ (auto) | 035250 |
| ์์ฝ์ฒ ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ํ ์์ฐ์ค์ ํ๋ชฉ (data.go.kr 15074315) | health-supplement production by product (annual) | data.go.kr ํ์ฉ์ ์ฒญ (auto) | |
| ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ ์ฃผ๋ฅ ์ถ๊ณ ํํฉ (data.go.kr file data) | beer / soju shipments (annual) | file download | 000080, 005300 |
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