Korea Sauces & Condiments Import Market
Sauces, brewed soy sauce and seasoned fish sauce entering South Korea — origin mix, supplier base and volume trend.
Updated Sep 2026 · from official Korean import declarations
- Korea logged 6,055 sauces and condiments import declarations in the last six months, up 2% on the six months before.
- Japan is the largest origin with 33.7% of all shipments (5,084).
- Germany is growing fastest among established origins — up 67% over the last three months against the three before.
- Spain is losing ground, down 31% over the same window.
- 52 overseas suppliers shipped sauces and condiments to Korea for the first time in the last three months.
- Sep 2026 shipments were down 7% on the month before.
Monthly shipments — sauces & condiments
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 5,084 | 33.7% | ▼ 8% |
| China | 3,531 | 23.4% | ▼ 10% |
| Italy | 1,715 | 11.4% | ▲ 4% |
| Thailand | 1,682 | 11.1% | ▼ 4% |
| United States | 881 | 5.8% | ▲ 1% |
| Vietnam | 321 | 2.1% | ▲ 10% |
| Indonesia | 209 | 1.4% | — |
| Germany | 178 | 1.2% | ▲ 67% |
| Hong Kong | 126 | 0.8% | — |
| New Zealand | 124 | 0.8% | ▲ 4% |
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 | OTAFUKU SAUCE CO., LTD. | 690 |
| 2 | SOMI SHOKUHIN CO., LTD. TANBA FACTORY | 609 |
| 3 | FOSHAN HAI TIAN (GAOMING) FLAVOURING & FOOD CO., LTD. | 421 |
| 4 | LEE KUM KEE(XIN HUI) FOOD CO, LTD. | 385 |
| 5 | KIKKOMAN FOOD TECH COMPANY / NAKANE | 299 |
| 6 | SUREE INTERFOODS CO.,LTD | 258 |
| 7 | QINGDAO SKY FOOD CO.,LTD | 245 |
| 8 | ARIAKEJAPAN CO.,LTD. | 239 |
| 9 | PANTAINORASINGH MANUFACTURER CO.,LTD. | 180 |
| 10 | YAMASA NARITA INC. | 162 |
- 1Pam Tiso Pil Zit891
- 2Tumosuwi Duw Piv841
- 3Kureg Niwes Nab Nuv697
- 4Guzika Nul Pov588
- 5Fiwot Fubaw Wavel Wen399
- 6Nokew Libig Gole Saf379
- 7Rakop Jahi Job Toj372
639 Korean companies import sauces and condiments.
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 Sep 2026. This report covers the official item types Sauces, Brewed soy sauce, Seasoned fish sauce — 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.