반도체 10월 ICT 수출 202.1억달러…전월 이어 역대 2위<br /><br />South Korea's ICT exports hit their second highest monthly record in October... continuing their boom from September.<br />The welcome trend is driven mainly by robust shipments of semiconductors.<br />Kan Hyeong-woo help us dissect the digits. <br />A report released by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Wednesday shows South Korea's ICT exports rose by more than 12-percent on-year in October to more than 20-point-2-billion U.S. dollars... the third straight month it has surpassed the 20-billion dollar mark.<br />The nation's ICT trade surplus surpassed the 10-billion dollar mark for the third straight month... with a surplus of nearly 10-point-2-billion dollars in October.<br /> The lion's share of the country's ICT exports were semiconductors... which climbed by 21-and-a-half-percent on-year to 11-point-7-billion dollars last month.<br />The ministry says it's the first time that over 100-billion dollars of semiconductors had been exported in a single year. <br />Shipments of DRAMs and nand-flash memory chips soared by 37-percent and 35-and-a-half percent on-year respectively.<br />Exports of displays rose 10-and-a-half percent on-year to more than 2-point-4-billion dollars.<br />Smartphone exports also jumped by more than 14-percent on-year last month to more than one-point-6-billion dollars.<br />And exports of computers increased by more than 56-percent on-year to 140-million dollars.<br />By region, exports to China surpassed the 10-billion dollar mark for the sixth straight month in October, reaching nearly 10-point-5-billion dollars, which is an increase of more than three-percent from the same month last year.<br />Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News. <br />
