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Trade between Czechia and South Korea

In 2024, Czechia exported $1.2 billion to South Korea and imported $4.5 billion. Czechia ran a deficit of $3.3 billion with South Korea, compared with a deficit of $2.9 billion in 2019. South Korea was Czechia’s 18th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Czechia was South Korea’s 35th (0.4%).

Summary

Czechia → South Korea
$1.2billion
South Korea → Czechia
$4.5billion
Czechia’s balance
-$3.3billion

Balance

Czechia’s trade balance with South Korea

Trade between Czechia and South Korea grew 26.8-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Czechia’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 1.2
  • Imports 4.5
  • Balance -3.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$54 million$158 million-$104 million
1996$68 million$198 million-$130 million
1997$56 million$179 million-$123 million
1998$36 million$165 million-$130 million
1999$62 million$164 million-$102 million
2000$123 million$137 million-$14 million
2001$95 million$160 million-$66 million
2002$102 million$331 million-$228 million
2003$83 million$369 million-$286 million
2004$97 million$544 million-$446 million
2005$135 million$563 million-$428 million
2006$255 million$710 million-$455 million
2007$349 million$1.2 billion-$864 million
2008$404 million$1.5 billion-$1.1 billion
2009$364 million$1.3 billion-$925 million
2010$358 million$2.2 billion-$1.8 billion
2011$543 million$2.8 billion-$2.2 billion
2012$603 million$3.1 billion-$2.5 billion
2013$607 million$3 billion-$2.4 billion
2014$621 million$2.9 billion-$2.3 billion
2015$622 million$3.3 billion-$2.7 billion
2016$629 million$3.5 billion-$2.9 billion
2017$702 million$4.2 billion-$3.5 billion
2018$793 million$4.2 billion-$3.4 billion
2019$790 million$3.7 billion-$2.9 billion
2020$885 million$3.3 billion-$2.5 billion
2021$1 billion$4.8 billion-$3.8 billion
2022$878 million$4.1 billion-$3.2 billion
2023$1.2 billion$4.6 billion-$3.5 billion
2024$1.2 billion$4.5 billion-$3.3 billion

What they sell each other

What Czechia sells to South Korea

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Silicon wafers for electronics$234 million · 19.4%
    24 tonnes
  2. Electron microscopes$156 million · 12.9%
    181 tonnes
  3. Physical and chemical analysis instruments$62 million · 5.1%
    160 tonnes
  4. Computers$60 million · 5%
    59 tonnes · Czechia’s destinations
  5. New tires$36 million · 3%
    6 thousand tonnes · Czechia’s destinations
  6. Liquid pumps$32 million · 2.7%
    775 tonnes
  7. Auto parts$31 million · 2.6%
    1 thousand tonnes · Czechia’s destinations
  8. Vehicle lights and signals$28 million · 2.3%
    179 tonnes
  9. Valves and taps$25 million · 2.1%
    352 tonnes
  10. Cameras and broadcast equipment$21 million · 1.8%
    18 tonnes

What South Korea sells to Czechia

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Auto parts$959 million · 21.4%
    155 thousand tonnes · South Korea’s destinations
  2. Computer and office machine parts$347 million · 7.8%
    383 tonnes
  3. Control panels$247 million · 5.5%
    2 thousand tonnes
  4. Microchips$213 million · 4.8%
    45 tonnes · South Korea’s destinations
  5. Vehicle lights and signals$186 million · 4.2%
    5 thousand tonnes
  6. Cars$161 million · 3.6%
    11 thousand tonnes · South Korea’s destinations
  7. Cameras and broadcast equipment$151 million · 3.4%
    298 tonnes
  8. Parts for broadcast equipment$87 million · 2%
    467 tonnes
  9. Transformers and power supplies$84 million · 1.9%
    1 thousand tonnes
  10. Metal hardware and fittings$83 million · 1.9%
    10 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Hamburg (Germany) to Busan.

The estimated sea route between Hamburg (Germany) and Busan is 14,794 nautical miles (27,398 km) long: ≈ 34–44 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Dover, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (14,794 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Dover, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (11,275 nautical miles).

Czechia is landlocked: it ships through Hamburg (Germany).

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$3 billion · 53.5%
  2. Air$2.6 billion · 46.5%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

South Korea was Czechia’s 18th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Czechia was South Korea’s 35th (0.4%).

South Korea in Czechia’s trade
1.3%
South Korea’s rank among Czechia’s partners
18th
Czechia in South Korea’s trade
0.4%
Czechia’s rank among South Korea’s partners
35th

Compare with

Other partners of Czechia

Other partners of South Korea

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.