Ppalli-ppalli (빨리빨리) in Numbers
Ppalli-ppalli (빨리빨리) means "hurry, hurry", and South Korea lives by it. Here is the country's need for speed in numbers.
South Korea's delivery companies handled 125.5 parcels for every resident in 2025, up from 116.3 in 2024, according to the national logistics information center.
That was 4.6 times as many as in 2012, and the first year over 6 billion.
The online retailer Coupang (쿠팡) delivers groceries and millions of other items ordered by midnight before 7 a.m. the next morning, and offers free next-day delivery nationwide 365 days a year, according to its annual report.
Online orders for food services, such as meals ordered through delivery apps, were 15 times the 2017 level of ₩2.7 trillion.
South Koreans saw a doctor in person 18 times in 2023, 2.8 times the OECD average of 6.5. The OECD links this partly to short consultation times, which let doctors see more patients.
South Korea scored 0.95 in the 2025 index, the highest of all countries assessed, against an OECD average of 0.70. Australia (0.88) and Portugal (0.86) came next.
Parcels delivered in South Korea
Unit: billion parcels. Annual parcel volume from the National Logistics Information Center (국가물류통합정보센터, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport), based on data from the Korea Integrated Logistics Association (KILA). Source values in units of 10,000 parcels, shown here in billions rounded to two decimals. Read on 2026-10-04.
Data table
| Year | billion parcels |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 1.41 |
| 2013 | 1.51 |
| 2014 | 1.62 |
| 2015 | 1.82 |
| 2016 | 2.05 |
| 2017 | 2.32 |
| 2018 | 2.54 |
| 2019 | 2.79 |
| 2020 | 3.37 |
| 2021 | 3.63 |
| 2022 | 4.21 |
| 2023 | 5.16 |
| 2024 | 5.96 |
| 2025 | 6.42 |
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