교역조건 18개월 연속 악화<br /><br />South Korea's terms of trade got worse in May for the 18th consecutive month as import prices surpassed export prices.<br />The central bank says the terms of trade index for products, which measures the amount of imports a country can buy for each unit of exports, came to 90-point-7-6, down nearly six percent on-year.<br />The BOK attributed the drop to falling prices of electronics equipment and chemical products.<br />Import prices also dropped slightly due to lower industrial goods imports... but fell by a lower margin than export prices. <br />