Korea Coffee Import Market
Roasted coffee, green beans, instant and liquid coffee imported into South Korea — who ships it and where it comes from.
Updated Aug 2026 · from official Korean import declarations
- Korea logged 9,073 coffee import declarations in the last six months, up 6% on the six months before.
- Switzerland is the largest origin with 21.7% of all shipments (4,373).
- Ethiopia is growing fastest among established origins — up 100% over the last three months against the three before.
- Brazil is losing ground, down 26% over the same window.
- 147 overseas suppliers shipped coffee to Korea for the first time in the last three months, against 68 new buyers — new entrants are competing for existing accounts, not new ones.
- Aug 2026 shipments were down 10% on the month before.
Monthly shipments — coffee
the 6 before
Each declaration is one customs filing, not one container — a useful proxy for how often a market is being served rather than for tonnage.
Where it comes from
Origin share and momentum
| Origin | Shipments | Share | 3m vs prior 3m |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 4,373 | 21.7% | ▼ 23% |
| Italy | 2,383 | 11.8% | ▲ 29% |
| Vietnam | 1,831 | 9.1% | ▲ 14% |
| Brazil | 1,629 | 8.1% | ▼ 26% |
| United States | 1,571 | 7.8% | ▲ 7% |
| Colombia | 1,350 | 6.7% | ▼ 4% |
| Ethiopia | 972 | 4.8% | ▲ 100% |
| Australia | 667 | 3.3% | ▼ 1% |
| Japan | 515 | 2.6% | ▲ 1% |
| Singapore | 465 | 2.3% | ▲ 10% |
Growth is suppressed where the earlier window holds fewer than 20 shipments — a move from three to nine is not a trend.
Top suppliers to Korea
| # | Overseas manufacturer | Ships |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NESTLE NESPRESSO MANUFACTURING SA | 4,289 |
| 2 | ILLYCAFFE S.P.A. | 1,220 |
| 3 | NESTLE VIET NAM TRI AN FACTORY | 582 |
| 4 | INTELLIGENTSIA COFFEE, INC. | 485 |
| 5 | BACHA COFFEE PTE LTD | 461 |
| 6 | STARBUCKS CARSON VALLEY ROASTING PLANT | 411 |
| 7 | DUKES COFFEE ROASTERS | 400 |
| 8 | FEDERACION NACIONAL DE CAFETEROS DE COLOMBIA | 271 |
| 9 | LUIGI LAVAZZA S.P.A | 224 |
| 10 | NESTLE ESPANA SA | 204 |
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665 Korean companies import coffee.
This report does not name them.
KoreanImportData tracks every one of them — who they buy from, which origins they switched to, how often they ship and when they last imported. Search the full register by product, company or country, in English.
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These twelve are the biggest categories, not the only ones. The register covers every food, beverage, nutraceutical and packaging item type Korea imports.
Request a custom reportMethod and coverage
Figures are counts of individual import declarations lodged with the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, covering Jul 2025 to Aug 2026. This report covers the official item types Roasted coffee, Green coffee beans, Instant coffee, Prepared coffee (coffee mix), Liquid coffee — matched on the declared item type only, never on product-name text, so unrelated goods cannot be pulled in by a keyword.
Origin is the declared country of manufacture, not the country the goods were shipped from, which can differ where a distributor re-exports.
Company and product names are translated or transliterated from the official Korean record and may be imperfect; the Korean record is authoritative. One manufacturer can appear under more than one plant or spelling.
The register is reloaded monthly and this page is rebuilt with it. Figures here will differ from a report you read last month, by design.