{"id":983061,"date":"2026-01-03T07:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983061"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:22:00","slug":"south-korea-exports-top-700-bn-in-2025-amid-ai-chips-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/south-korea-exports-top-700-bn-in-2025-amid-ai-chips-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea exports top $700 bn in 2025, amid AI, chips boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring global demand for semiconductors fuelled by a boom in artificial intelligence sent South Korea&#8217;s exports to their highest-ever level in 2025, official data showed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Total exports last year were valued at over $700 billion, according to data from Seoul&#8217;s industry ministry, up 3.8 percent from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The worldwide surge in interest in artificial intelligence saw semiconductor industry exports reach $173.4 billion in 2025 &#8211; a record high and an increase of more than 20 percent from the previous year, the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring global demand for semiconductors fuelled by a boom in artificial intelligence sent South Korea&#8217;s exports to their highest-ever level in 2025, official data showed Thursday. Total exports last year were valued at over $700 billion, according to data from Seoul&#8217;s industry ministry, up 3.8 percent from the previous year. The worldwide surge in interest in artificial intelligence saw semiconductor industry exports reach $173.4 billion in 2025 &#8211; a record high and an increase of more than 20 percent from the previous year, the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}