Chocolate Confectionery in South Korea

Chocolate confectionery in South Korea is feeling the impact of environmental factors in 2025. Driven by climate change and crop disease, global cocoa bean supply has declined, leading to significant price increases in 2024 and 2025. The surge in raw material costs has resulted in a double-digit year-on-year increase in unit prices, particularly in 2025. As a result, the retail value of the chocolate confectionery category has grown.

The Chocolate Confectionery in South Korea report offers in-depth knowledge of the market at a national level, providing local insight and understanding unavailable elsewhere. In addition to the latest retail sales data 2020-2024, it identifies the leading companies, brands and retail outlets, and assesses the key trends and demographic shifts behind consumer demand and sales growth. How key trends such as health and wellness, sustainability and recovery from the pandemic are currently shaping the market along with prospects for the next five years, clearly indicating how the market is expected to change.

Product coverage: Boxed Assortments, Chocolate Pouches and Bags, Chocolate with Toys, Countlines, Other Chocolate Confectionery, Seasonal Chocolate, Tablets.

Data coverage: Market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.

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• Get a detailed picture of the Chocolate Confectionery market
• Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change
• Understand the competitive environment, the market’s major players and leading brands
• Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.