Korea Olive Oil Import Market
Olive oil entering South Korea — which producing countries lead, which suppliers ship most, and where volume is heading.
Updated Aug 2026 · from official Korean import declarations
- Korea logged 1,988 olive oil import declarations in the last six months, down 21% on the six months before.
- Spain is the largest origin with 46.6% of all shipments (2,489).
- Italy is growing fastest among established origins — up 5% over the last three months against the three before.
- Greece is losing ground, down 25% over the same window.
- 46 overseas suppliers shipped olive oil to Korea for the first time in the last three months.
- Aug 2026 shipments were down 8% on the month before.
Monthly shipments — olive oil
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2,489 | 46.6% | ▼ 6% |
| Italy | 2,155 | 40.3% | ▲ 5% |
| Greece | 409 | 7.7% | ▼ 25% |
| France | 121 | 2.3% | ▼ 14% |
| Portugal | 45 | 0.8% | — |
| Tunisia | 41 | 0.8% | — |
| Türkiye | 40 | 0.7% | — |
| United States | 9 | 0.2% | — |
| Cyprus | 8 | 0.1% | — |
| Palestine | 6 | 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 | ACEITES ORO BAILEN GALGON 99 S.L.U. | 138 |
| 2 | CASAS DE HUALDO S.L. | 116 |
| 3 | BASSO FEDELE & FIGLI S.R.L. | 111 |
| 4 | ACEITES DEL SUR-COOSUR S.A. | 107 |
| 5 | OLEARIA F.LLI DE CECCO DI FILIPPO FARA SAN MARTINO S.R.L. | 95 |
| 6 | MANFREDI BARBERA & FIGLI S.P.A | 92 |
| 7 | OLITALIA S.R.L | 88 |
| 8 | ACEITES DE LAS HERAS, S.L.U | 88 |
| 9 | MONINI S.P.A | 86 |
| 10 | MEDSOL SRL | 77 |
- 1Burelo Napik155
- 2Huc Gunolamo Wak Qot151
- 3Guqul Qus145
- 4Qacik Zad Vej Jih106
- 5Zenod Jugo Guc Guf97
- 6Refogodiqe Tap Gup96
- 7Ciki Qucaror Gub Sab92
569 Korean companies import olive oil.
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.
Every account starts free with five lookups — no card required.
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 Olive oil — 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.