반도체 10월 ICT 수출 202.1억달러…전월 이어 역대 2위

South Korea's ICT exports hit their second highest monthly record in October... continuing their boom from September.
The welcome trend is driven mainly by robust shipments of semiconductors.
Kan Hyeong-woo help us dissect the digits.
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.
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.
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.
The ministry says it's the first time that over 100-billion dollars of semiconductors had been exported in a single year.
Shipments of DRAMs and nand-flash memory chips soared by 37-percent and 35-and-a-half percent on-year respectively.
Exports of displays rose 10-and-a-half percent on-year to more than 2-point-4-billion dollars.
Smartphone exports also jumped by more than 14-percent on-year last month to more than one-point-6-billion dollars.
And exports of computers increased by more than 56-percent on-year to 140-million dollars.
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.
Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News.