South Korea's outbound shipments which have been on the recovery trend sharply jumped this month.
 
According to the Korea Customs Service on Saturday, exports in the first ten days of February amounted to 15-point-one billion dollars, up 72-point-eight percent from the same period last year.
 
There were five-point-five business days in the first ten days of last February, compared to eight-point-five days this year.
 
Considering the difference, daily average shipment between February first and the tenth rose eleven-point-eight percent this year to one-point-77 billion dollars. 

The protracted minus growth for exports ended in November with a posting of two and a half percent growth year-on-year. Shipments grew six-point-four percent in December and over eleven percent last month, expanding the pace of recovery.