SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — South Korea logged trade deficit in the first 20 days of this month amid faltering export, customs office data showed Wednesday.
Trade deficit amounted to 4.1 billion U.S. dollars in the Sept. 1-20 period, turning sour from a surplus of 1.17 billion dollars tallied in the same period of last year, according to the Korea Customs Service.
For the past five months through August,