Releases / South Korea

Korea exports and imports for the 1st to the 10th and the 1st to the 20th of the month (KCS, customs clearance, provisional) release schedule and API

Korea Customs Service (KCS). Source: Korea Customs Service (관세청), 수출입 현황 press releases (https://www.customs.go.kr), KOGL Type 1. Licence: KOGL-Type-1.

Next releases

ReleaseUTCAgency local time
Exports and imports, 1st to 20th of the month09:00 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, 1st to 10th of the month09:00 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, 1st to 20th of the month09:00 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, 1st to 10th of the month09:00 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, 1st to 20th of the month09:00 local (UTC+09:00)
Exports and imports, 1st to 10th of the month09:00 local (UTC+09:00)

From the agency's own calendar, as of 2026-11-13. Reschedules and cancellations are in the API.

How fast it reaches the API

ReleaseMeasuredMedianFastestSlowestMissed
d10128.7 min28.7 min28.7 min0

Time from the agency publishing to the data being on our feed, for releases caught live in the last 30 days. Every release counts, including slow ones and misses.

Get it by API

Series ids: KR.EXPORTS_D20.TOTAL.NSA, KR.IMPORTS_D20.TOTAL.NSA.

# pip install econfeed-client
from econfeed_client import Client

ef = Client()  # ECONFEED_API_KEY from the environment
for e in ef.calendar(days=90, source="kr_kcs_trade10d"):
    print(e.scheduled_at, e.release_name, e.reference_period)

# add as_of= for what was known then
page = ef.observations("KR.EXPORTS_D20.TOTAL.NSA", start="2024-01")

# pushed seconds after release
for ev in ef.stream(sources=["kr_kcs_trade10d"]):
    print(ev.type, ev.data.release_id)

REST: GET /v1/calendar?source=kr_kcs_trade10d, GET /v1/series/KR.EXPORTS_D20.TOTAL.NSA/observations. Webhooks: filter on source kr_kcs_trade10d.