SEOUL, July 1 (Xinhua) — South Korea logged the highest first-half trade deficit this year on faster growth in import than export, caused by higher commodity prices, government data showed Friday.
Trade deficit amounted to 10.3 billion U.S. dollars for the first six months of this year, topping the previous high of 9.16 billion dollars tallied in the first half of 1997, according to the Ministry of Trade, Indus