What this is
Korea's total imports from Japan in 2025 under the customs heading for card games: about ¥2.85bn including freight and insurance, or ¥2.03bn on Japan's own export figure. It covers every publisher, not just Pokémon.
How it’s built
- Korea's 2025 imports from Japan under heading 9504.40 were $19.0m including freight and insurance; Japan reported $13.5m of the same flow at its border.
- Both were converted to won at the 2025 average of 1,422 per dollar and to yen at 9.51 won per yen.
What we assumed
- Korean-language Pokémon cards, if shipped from Japan, would be classed under this heading.It is the heading US customs uses for trading-card-game cards; Korea's own ruling for these cards was not read.
- Calendar 2025 stands in for TPC's year to February 2026.The trade statistics are by calendar year; the two periods overlap by ten months.
Sanity check
At roughly ¥5.5–7.7 per card-equivalent, the flow is priced at about the cost of printing a card, which fits a mix of many publishers' products rather than a large Pokémon transfer.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- Japan origin CIF $: 19,031,887
- Japan origin CIF KRWbn: 27.1
- Japan origin CIF: ¥2.85bn
- Japan reported FOB $: 13,544,450
- Japan reported FOB: ¥2.03bn
- D12 bought from parent: 3.24, 4.38, 4.56
- 19,031,887 × 1,422 = ₩27.06bn ÷ 9.51 = ¥2.85bn
- 13,544,450 × 1,422 = ₩19.26bn ÷ 9.51 = ¥2.03bn
- 3.24/2.85 = 114%, 4.56/2.85 = 160%
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