SEOUL: Booming sales to China and rising capital investment drove South Korea's exports and imports to record highs in March, the government said yesterday, but separate data showed inflation remained a worry for the economy.
Hot exports of cars and semiconductors pushed exports up 40% last month from a year earlier, with top buyer China snapping up 54% more goods in March than in the equivalent month of 2003.
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