China–South Korea Free Trade Agreement


The China–South Korea Free Trade Agreement is a free trade agreement between China and South Korea.
Negotiations on the agreement started in May 2012. By July 2014 there had been 12 rounds of talks.
On November 10, 2014, the Agreement was made official. South Korean president Park Geun-hye stated that her government would make efforts to enter the agreement into force as soon as possible.
On June 1, 2015, China and South Korea signed a free trade agreement, which went into force on December 20, 2015.
China accounted for 24.8 percent of South Korea's total exports in 2018, according to the Korea International Trade Association