{"id":173692,"date":"2025-12-31T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/ai-chips-boom-sent-south-korea-exports-soaring-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:00:17","slug":"ai-chips-boom-sent-south-korea-exports-soaring-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/ai-chips-boom-sent-south-korea-exports-soaring-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, chips boom sent South Korea exports soaring in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260101-ai-chips-boom-sent-south-korea-exports-soaring-in-2025\">AI, chips boom sent South Korea exports soaring in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260101-ai-chips-boom-sent-south-korea-exports-soaring-in-2025\">https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260101-ai-chips-boom-sent-south-korea-exports-soaring-in-2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2025-12-31 21:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.france24.com\">www.france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Korea&#8217;s total exports were valued at over $700 billion in the last year, up by 3.8 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Semiconductor exports soared to $173.4 billion, a record high and more than 20 percent up year-on-year, driven by strong demand for memory chips used in AI data centers.<\/li>\n<li>South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are major players in the global semiconductor market, supplying crucial components for the AI industry.<\/li>\n<li>South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has made a commitment to triple spending on AI to elevate the country to one of the world&#8217;s top three AI powers.<\/li>\n<li>Auto shipments also reached $72 billion, the highest on record despite US tariff pressures.<\/li>\n<li>Other sectors like agriculture and cosmetics set new highs due to global interest in South Korea&#8217;s pop culture, food, and beauty products.<\/li>\n<li>Exports to the United States and China dipped due to tariffs on goods, although the U.S. implemented a reduced 15 percent tariff compared to the initially proposed 25 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Industry minister Kim Jung-kwan noted the export growth amid challenging conditions and stressed both resilience and future trade uncertainties for the year ahead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI, chips boom sent South Korea exports soaring in 2025 https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260101-ai-chips-boom-sent-south-korea-exports-soaring-in-2025 Publish Date: 2025-12-31 21:47:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/2c6b3228-e6bc-11f0-bc0f-005056a97e36\/w:1280\/p:16x9\/952d8f822fae87b5144e75c1ba9a008845a7db07.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173694,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173692\/revisions\/173694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}