Korea Ice Cream Import Market
Ice cream imports into South Korea — who supplies them, from where, and how the market has moved over fourteen months.
Updated Aug 2026 · from official Korean import declarations
- Korea logged 945 ice cream import declarations in the last six months, down 2% on the six months before.
- France is the largest origin with 66% of all shipments (1,475).
- United States is growing fastest among established origins — up 76% over the last three months against the three before.
- Russia is losing ground, down 23% over the same window.
- 4 overseas suppliers shipped ice cream to Korea for the first time in the last three months.
- Aug 2026 shipments were up 36% on the month before.
Monthly shipments — ice cream
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 1,475 | 66.0% | ▲ 38% |
| United States | 522 | 23.4% | ▲ 76% |
| Russia | 99 | 4.4% | ▼ 23% |
| Italy | 44 | 2.0% | — |
| Japan | 44 | 2.0% | — |
| United Kingdom | 33 | 1.5% | — |
| China | 5 | 0.2% | — |
| New Zealand | 5 | 0.2% | — |
| Lithuania | 4 | 0.2% | — |
| Switzerland | 3 | 0.1% | — |
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 | HAAGEN DAZS ARRAS SNC | 1,473 |
| 2 | BEN AND JERRY’S ST. ALBANS | 216 |
| 3 | BEN & JERRY‘S-WATERBURY | 118 |
| 4 | LLC "FABRICA NASTOYASHEGO MOROGHENOGO" | 99 |
| 5 | DREYER’S GRAND ICE CREAM, INC | 61 |
| 6 | SAMMONTANA SPA | 43 |
| 7 | MACKIE’S LTD T/A MACKIE’S OF SCOTLAND | 33 |
| 8 | Haagen-Dazs Japan-Gunma Plant | 29 |
| 9 | East Side Jersey Dairy Inc. DBA: Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. - Orrville | 27 |
| 10 | HUMBOLDT CREAMERY | 26 |
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19 Korean companies import ice cream.
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 type Ice cream — 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.