Korea Wine Import Market
South Korea's fruit-wine import market — the largest single food-and-beverage item type in the register — by origin, supplier and month.
Updated Aug 2026 · from official Korean import declarations
- Korea logged 17,896 wine import declarations in the last six months, up 4% on the six months before.
- France is the largest origin with 47.2% of all shipments (19,427).
- Spain is growing fastest among established origins — up 32% over the last three months against the three before.
- South Africa is losing ground, down 47% over the same window.
- 525 overseas suppliers shipped wine to Korea for the first time in the last three months, against 28 new buyers — new entrants are competing for existing accounts, not new ones.
- Aug 2026 shipments were down 6% on the month before.
Monthly shipments — wine
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 | 19,427 | 47.2% | ▼ 5% |
| Italy | 6,331 | 15.4% | ▼ 6% |
| United States | 3,384 | 8.2% | ▼ 8% |
| Spain | 2,794 | 6.8% | ▲ 32% |
| Chile | 2,547 | 6.2% | ▼ 4% |
| Australia | 1,672 | 4.1% | ▼ 5% |
| New Zealand | 1,333 | 3.2% | ▲ 11% |
| Germany | 967 | 2.4% | ▼ 20% |
| Portugal | 788 | 1.9% | ▼ 5% |
| Argentina | 546 | 1.3% | ▼ 2% |
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 | MOET AND CHANDON | 339 |
| 2 | WINEWORKS MARLBOROUGH LIMITED | 327 |
| 3 | UNION DES CAVES COOPERATIVES DU SECTEUR DE SAINT CHINIAN | 309 |
| 4 | FIOR DI SOLE, LLC | 239 |
| 5 | CHAMPAGNE KRUG | 187 |
| 6 | BODEGAS FERNANDO CASTRO S.L. | 178 |
| 7 | PIERRE GIRARDIN | 177 |
| 8 | TREASURY WINE ESTATES VINTNERS LIMITED | 176 |
| 9 | BODEGAS Y VINEDOS DE AGUIRRE S.A. | 172 |
| 10 | MONTES S.A. | 170 |
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- 2Cebilejo Guhomuwofabo Ver Kik2,040
- 3Dozujo Got Bib Qub1,855
- 4Mofo Tiquqi Piq Her1,691
- 5Kekom Buk Hos1,652
- 6Fogef Renanise Lawaneru Mon1,359
- 7Ricutup Baqeg Kif Wef1,107
573 Korean companies import wine.
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 Fruit wine — 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.