Economy · Korea · Inflows

United States holds 426.5 bn of claims on Korea: 385.1 bn in securities, 41.4 bn in direct investment

Name: Money ladder: Korea, inflows
Creator: datasteg
License: https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/sources#licences

Who puts money into this economy, through which instruments, and where its own money goes · United States holds 36.2% of the 1,064.0 bn of securities identified by holder (including 69.6 bn held by reserve managers and international organisations) · Portfolio end-2025 (half-yearly) · bank claims Q4 2025 (quarterly) · direct investment end-2024 · release 20261102.2 · method 1.5 · Updated 2 Nov 2026, 22:57 KST

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Latest 2026-11-02

Securities held abroad
1,064.0 bn
end-2025 · 70 holders · IMF PIP
Bank claims on Korea
158.5 bn
Q4 2025 · 107.8 bn in USD · BIS LBS
Gross external liabilities (incl. equity)
1,981.9 bn
debt 770.2 bn · equity 1,164.6 bn · derivatives 47.2 bn · Q4 2025 · IMF IIP
Net IIP (assets − liabilities)
+885.7 bn
2,867.6 bn assets − 1,981.9 bn liabilities · Q4 2025 · IMF IIP
FX reserves
440.6 bn
Sep 2026 · Bank of Korea

The money ladder, Korea, inflows, USD bn

Positions at the newest period all channels share · width is the position · residence basis

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GlobalIssuing central banks, total assets (own scale)

Switzerland1,148.02026-07-31
China7,285.22026-06-30
Euro area6,739.22026-10-25
UK1,080.82026-07-31
Japan4,020.92026-07-31
United States6,745.62026-10-28

Source: BIS CBTA; ECB ILM; Federal Reserve via FRED

CountryBorder (IIP), liabilities, Q4 2025

Total1,981.9
Portfolio1,364.6
Direct322.0
Other248.1

Source: IMF IIP

CountryMade here

Central bank assets399.22026-05-31
Monetary base229.12026-09-30
M1963.62026-08-31
Broad money3,095.62026-08-31
Lf4,648.22026-08-31
L (liquidity)5,916.62026-08-31
FX reserves440.62026-09-30

Source: BIS CBTA; Bank of Korea, ECOS

Source: BIS central bank total assets; BIS locational banking statistics (Q4 2025); Bank of Korea economic Statistics System (ECOS); IMF direct Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CDIS) (end-2024); IMF international Investment Position (Q4 2025); IMF portfolio Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CPIS) (end-2025). Calculations: datasteg money-flow, method 1.5, rules R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7. · Updated 2 Nov 2026

Coverage

Portfolio identified by holder78.0%

1,064.0 / 1,364.6 bn · of which reserve managers and international organisations 69.6 bn

Bank loans and deposits identified53.8%

85.2 / 158.5 bn · IIP loans 153.2 bn, deposits 43.0 bn · 9.8% of all reporters' claims come from reporters with no instrument split (Germany, Japan) and stay outside the ribbon (R5)

Direct investment identified100.0%

255.2 / 255.2 bn (DIP, the host's valuation) · IIP 296.3 bn (market value)

Sources

MBIS central bank total assets2026-07
QBIS locational banking statistics2026-06
MBank of Korea economic Statistics System (ECOS)2026-09
AIMF direct Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CDIS)2024-12
QIMF international Investment Position2026-06
SIMF portfolio Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CPIS)2025-12

Rules applied

Checks

PassV3Every node adds up to its total
PassV5FX reserves: 442.3 bn vs 442.3 bn (0.0% apart, 2026-08)
InformationV5Broad money: 2,836.2 bn vs 3,131.5 bn (9.4% apart, 2025-10)
InformationV5Monetary base: no month both sources have
PassV5FX reserves: 427.4 bn vs 427.4 bn (0.0% apart, 2026-06)
PassV5iip_portfolio_assets: 1,380.8 bn vs 1,380.8 bn (0.0% apart, 2026-06)
PassV5iip_portfolio_liabilities: 2,332.2 bn vs 2,332.2 bn (0.0% apart, 2026-06)
PassV5portfolio_assets: 1,237.0 bn vs 1,253.2 bn (1.3% apart, 2025-12)
InformationV5fdi_liabilities: 255.2 bn vs 296.3 bn (13.9% apart, 2024-12)
InformationV622 direct investment pairs: the two reports differ by more than 50%
InformationR5Bank ribbon: loans and deposits 158.5 bn only. All instruments 381.3 bn = loans and deposits + debt securities 167.9 bn (counted in portfolio debt) + derivatives and other 54.9 bn (a pool of its own)
WarningR162 series segment(s) quarantined as source errors: cb_liabilities_nonres from 2003-06-30, cb_liabilities_nonres from 2003-09-30
InformationV8The plan's Korea figures are rebuilt

Flows

Border transactions (BOP, published flows)

Portfolio
Q2 2026 · IMF BOP−47.5 bn
Direct
Q2 2026 · IMF BOP+6.0 bn
Other
Q2 2026 · IMF BOP+18.0 bn

Transactions, with no valuation change (R8); never added to positions.

Market context

Credit to the private sector
Q1 2026 · BIS TC3,502.1 bn
International debt securities
Q2 2026 · BIS DSS308.2 bn

Domestic sizes are context only; no foreign share is computed (M5).

Cite

Cite this view

datasteg (2026), “Money ladder: Korea, inflows”, datasteg money-flow, release 20261102.2, method 1.5, 2 November 2026, https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/e/KOR?r=20261102.2&ch=bank&d=2026-11-02&dir=in.

Figure note: Source: datasteg money-flow (release 20261102.2, method 1.5), from BIS CBTA, BIS LBS, Bank of Korea, ECOS, IMF DIP (CDIS), IMF IIP and IMF PIP (CPIS).

BibTeX

@misc{datasteg:mf:KOR-in:20261102.2,
  author       = {{datasteg}},
  title        = {Money ladder: {Korea}, inflows},
  howpublished = {datasteg money-flow, release 20261102.2, method 1.5},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-11-02},
  url          = {https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/e/KOR?r=20261102.2&ch=bank&d=2026-11-02&dir=in},
  urldate      = {2026-11-02},
  note         = {Positions from BIS CBTA, BIS LBS, Bank of Korea, ECOS, IMF DIP (CDIS), IMF IIP, IMF PIP (CPIS)}
}

The datasets' own citations (6)

Bank for International Settlements (2026), Central bank total assets, retrieved 27 October 2026, https://data.bis.org/topics/CBTA.
Bank for International Settlements (2026), Locational banking statistics, retrieved 30 October 2026, https://data.bis.org/topics/LBS.
Bank of Korea (2026), Economic Statistics System (ECOS), retrieved 27 October 2026, https://ecos.bok.or.kr/.
International Monetary Fund (2026), Direct Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CDIS), retrieved 27 October 2026, https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:DIP.
International Monetary Fund (2026), International Investment Position, retrieved 27 October 2026, https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:IIP.
International Monetary Fund (2026), Portfolio Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CPIS), retrieved 27 October 2026, https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:PIP.

The method's citation

datasteg (2026), “Money-flow methodology”, version 1.5, datasteg money-flow, 2 November 2026, https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/method?v=1.5.

@misc{datasteg:mf:method:1.5,
  author       = {{datasteg}},
  title        = {Money-flow methodology},
  howpublished = {datasteg money-flow, version 1.5},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-11-02},
  url          = {https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/method?v=1.5},
  urldate      = {2026-11-02}
}

Notes

Position. The stock outstanding at the end of a period, at market or book value as the source reports it.
Flow. The change over a period: a published transaction, or the difference of two positions (then valuation changes are mixed in).
Residence. Positions assigned to the economy where the holder or the bank office is located.
Nationality. Bank positions assigned to the economy where the bank's parent is headquartered (BIS CBS).
Coverage. The share of an economy's total for a channel that pair data identify by counterparty.
Financial centre (FC). An economy whose external positions are large relative to its GDP; holdings there often belong to investors elsewhere. The BIS offshore centres carry the tag FC; Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland, where funds are domiciled, carry FD: a holder there is a fund domicile, not an end investor.