SEOUL: South Korea on Monday posted a record current account surplus for the first half of this year as slumping oil prices helped offset the impact of shrinking exports.
The current account—the broadest measure of foreign trade in goods and services—showed an unprecedented surplus of $52.4 billion in the six months to June, according to data from the central Bank of Korea.
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