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South Korea has a market economy which ranks 15th in the world by nominal GDP and 12th by purchasing power parity ( PPP ), identifying it as one of the G-20 major economies.

It is a high-income developed country, with a developed market, and is a member of OECD.

South Korea is one of the Asian Tigers, and is the only developed country so far to have been included in the group of Next Eleven countries.

South Korea had one of the world's fastest growing economies from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and South Korea is still one of the fastest growing developed countries in the 2000s, along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, the other three members of Asian Tigers.

South Koreans refer to this growth as the Miracle on the Han River.

Having almost no natural resources and always suffering from overpopulation in its small territory, which deterred continued population growth and the formation of a large internal consumer market, South Korea adapted an export-oriented economic strategy to fuel its economy, and in 2010, South Korea was the seventh largest exporter and tenth largest importer in the world.

Bank of Korea and Korea Development Institute periodically release major economic indicators and economic trends of the economy of South Korea.