<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>SEOUL (Nov 1): South Korea's exports nearly doubled in October from a year earlier, beating market expectations and marking the sharpest jump in more than 50 years, trade data showed on Sunday.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Exports from Asia's fourth-largest economy, a bellwether for global trade, rose 93.7% last month to US$115.28 billion (RM467.8 billion), slightly higher than a median 93.2% rise forecast in a Reuters poll of economists.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The increase, boosted by favourable calendar effects of more working days due to the timing difference in local Chuseok holidays, beat September's 83.7% gain and was the strongest since January 1974.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Overseas sales of semiconductors jumped 259.4% as prices and volume remained high on continued facility investment by global big tech firms in the competition for artificial intelligence industry leadership, the trade ministry said.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Computer sales surged 496.6% on increasing server demand for AI services.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Imports rose 36.0% to US$72.78 billion, after rising 26.0% in September, to post the biggest annual increase since January 2022.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The country's monthly trade balance stood at a surplus of US$42.50 billion, narrower than a record US$49.97 billion surplus in the previous month.</p></div>

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