Question: What was the surplus for Korea's services account in the first nine months of this year?
About the article "Gangnam Style", section "South Korea".

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In 2012, the South Korean government announced that "Gangnam Style" had brought in $13.4 million to the country’s audio sector, and it subsequently launched a campaign to further expand the K-Pop music industry overseas.
According to the Bank of Korea, the country's services account recorded a surplus of USD 2.3 billion in the first nine months of this year, compared to a deficit of USD 4.5 billion last year.
This was mainly due to the growing influence and popularity of K-pop songs such as "Gangnam Style".
However, the American journalist John Seabrook noted that by "satirizing standard K-pop tropes in Gangnam Style", Psy may have subverted the music genre's chances of making it big in the West.
The Surplus Property Board was briefly responsible for disposing of $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II.
Created by the Surplus Property Act of 1944, the Board functioned for less than nine months, before being replaced by a more streamlined agency. 
The magnitude of the surplus product can be estimated in stocks of physical use-values, in money prices, or in labour hours.
If it is known: what and how much was produced in a year, what the population structure is, what incomes or earnings were received, how many hours were worked in different occupations, what the normal actual consumption pattern is, what the producers pay in terms of taxes or tribute then measures of the necessary product and surplus product can in principle be estimated.
However it is never possible to obtain mathematically exact or fully objective distinctions between necessary and surplus product, because social needs and investment requirements are always subject to moral debate and political contests between social classes.
At best, some statistical "indicators" can be developed.
In Das Kapital, Marx himself was less concerned with measurement issues than with the social relations involved in the production and distribution of the surplus product.
Essentially the techniques for estimating the size of the surplus product in a capitalist economy are similar to those for measuring surplus-value.
However, some components of the surplus product may not be marketed products or services.
The existence of markets always presupposes a lot of non-market labour as well.
A physical surplus product is not the same as surplus "value", and the magnitudes of surplus product, surplus labour and surplus value may diverge. 
BOPThe two principal parts of the BOP accounts are the current account and the capital account.
The "current account" shows the net amount a country is earning if it is in surplus, or spending if it is in deficit.
It is the sum of the balance of trade (net earnings on exports minus payments for imports), factor income (earnings on foreign investments minus payments made to foreign investors) and cash transfers.
It is called the "current" account as it covers transactions in the "here and now" – those that don't give rise to future claims.
The "Capital Account" records the net change in ownership of foreign assets.
It includes the reserve account (the foreign exchange market operations of a nation's central bank), along with loans and investments between the country and the rest of world (but not the future regular repayments/dividends that the loans and investments yield; those are earnings and will be recorded in the current account).
The term "capital account" is also used in the narrower sense that excludes central bank foreign exchange market operations: Sometimes the reserve account is classified as "below the line" and so not reported as part of the capital account.
Expressed with the broader meaning for the "capital account", the BOP identity assumes that any current account surplus will be balanced by a capital account deficit of equal size – or alternatively a current account deficit will be balanced by a corresponding capital account surplus:  formula_1 The "balancing item", which may be positive or negative, is simply an amount that accounts for any statistical errors and assures that the current and capital accounts sum to zero.
By the principles of double entry accounting, an entry in the current account gives rise to an entry in the capital account, and in aggregate the two accounts automatically balance.
A balance isn't always reflected in reported figures for the current and capital accounts, which might, for example, report a surplus for both accounts, but when this happens it always means something has been missed – most commonly, the operations of the country's central bank – and what has been missed is recorded in the statistical discrepancy term (the balancing item).
An actual balance sheet will typically have numerous sub headings under the principal divisions.
For example, entries under Current account might include:  "Trade" – buying and selling of goods and services * "Exports" – a credit entry * "Imports" – a debit entry ** "Trade balance" – the sum of Exports and Imports  "Factor income" – repayments and dividends from loans and investments * "Factor earnings" – a credit entry * "Factor payments" – a debit entry ** "Factor income balance" – the sum of earnings and payments.
Especially in older balance sheets, a common division was between visible and invisible entries.
Visible trade recorded imports and exports of physical goods (entries for trade in physical goods excluding services is now often called the "merchandise balance").
Invisible trade would record international buying and selling of services, and sometimes would be grouped with transfer and factor income as invisible earnings.
The term "balance of payments surplus" (or deficit – a deficit is simply a negative surplus) refers to the sum of the surpluses in the current account and the narrowly defined capital account (excluding changes in central bank reserves).
Denoting the balance of payments surplus as BOP surplus, the relevant identity is  formula_2  
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