- Source
- Korea Customs Service trade statistics — Korea Customs Service (관세청), from the item-by-country trade query at tradedata.go.kr. Licence: KOGL Type 1 (attribution), with the marking present on the query screen as checked on 9 September 2026. Period: 2025 customs clearances. Retrieved: 2026-09-10.
- The product is narrowed to HS 3304 alone
- Beauty, make-up and skincare preparations. Folding in hair products, shaving and bath preparations, and soap would make the scope of “cosmetics” our judgement, and the name would stop matching the number. That is why the HS code is printed on the page itself.
- Only the top 20 are shown, and we say how much is cut
- The source publishes all 196 destinations, and they sum to the published total. Listing 196 rows would not be read, so we render the top 20 and state both the full count and the share they cover (83.8%) in the opening line. The remaining 176 countries account for the other 16.2%.
This is not the “keep only what has data” selection we forbid elsewhere. The cut is made on the ranking variable itself, no item was chosen for having data, and the size of what is cut is not hidden. - Formula
- Export value in thousands of US dollars, descending. No weighting and no adjustment. Tonnage is shown alongside because value and volume are not in the same order, and that gap is what shows the product mix differing by market.
- The English country names are our translation
- The source names countries in Korean. The English labels are ours, and the collector halts if a country reaches the top 20 without a mapping — that is what keeps Korean country names from leaking onto the English page. The mapping is shared with the K-Food Export Index.