Korea - Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)

The value for Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) in Korea was 1,143.96 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 61 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,403.18 in 1998 and a minimum value of 63.13 in 1960.

Definition: Official exchange rate refers to the exchange rate determined by national authorities or to the rate determined in the legally sanctioned exchange market. It is calculated as an annual average based on monthly averages (local currency units relative to the U.S. dollar).

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics.

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Year Value
1960 63.13
1961 124.79
1962 130.00
1963 130.00
1964 213.85
1965 266.27
1966 271.13
1967 270.51
1968 276.64
1969 288.24
1970 310.56
1971 347.15
1972 392.89
1973 398.32
1974 404.47
1975 484.00
1976 484.00
1977 484.00
1978 484.00
1979 484.00
1980 607.72
1981 681.03
1982 731.17
1983 775.75
1984 805.97
1985 870.02
1986 881.46
1987 822.56
1988 731.46
1989 671.46
1990 707.77
1991 733.33
1992 780.67
1993 802.54
1994 803.77
1995 771.25
1996 804.46
1997 949.89
1998 1,403.18
1999 1,189.44
2000 1,130.36
2001 1,290.79
2002 1,251.60
2003 1,191.65
2004 1,146.25
2005 1,024.33
2006 955.34
2007 929.38
2008 1,100.13
2009 1,277.25
2010 1,156.46
2011 1,108.23
2012 1,126.81
2013 1,094.98
2014 1,052.84
2015 1,130.95
2016 1,160.77
2017 1,131.00
2018 1,100.16
2019 1,165.36
2020 1,180.27
2021 1,143.96

Development Relevance: In a market-based economy, household, producer, and government choices about resource allocation are influenced by relative prices, including the real exchange rate, real wages, real interest rates, and other prices in the economy. Relative prices also largely reflect these agents' choices. Thus relative prices convey vital information about the interaction of economic agents in an economy and with the rest of the world.

Limitations and Exceptions: Official or market exchange rates are often used to convert economic statistics in local currencies to a common currency in order to make comparisons across countries. Since market rates reflect at best the relative prices of tradable goods, the volume of goods and services that a U.S. dollar buys in the United States may not correspond to what a U.S. dollar converted to another country's currency at the official exchange rate would buy in that country, particularly when nontradable goods and services account for a significant share of a country's output. An alternative exchange rate - the purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor - is preferred because it reflects differences in price levels for both tradable and nontradable goods and services and therefore provides a more meaningful comparison of real output.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another. Official exchange rates and exchange rate arrangements are established by governments. Other exchange rates recognized by governments include market rates, which are determined largely by legal market forces, and for countries with multiple exchange arrangements, principal rates, secondary rates, and tertiary rates.

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exchange rates & prices