South Korea’s Solid Exports Show World Economy Is Healing

Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg

A clearer picture of the global economy’s health is starting emerge after months of difficult-to-interpret comparisons to a year ago.

South Korea posted an exports gain of almost 30% in the first 20 days of June from a year earlier, but the pace of rise was much slower than in May when they jumped by a 10-year high of more than 50%.