Question: Korea's services account recorded a surplus of how much 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.
Transactions can be grouped broadly according to purpose in the following accounts;the production account displays the transactions involved in the generation of income by the production of goods and services.
For each of the four sectors (the rest of the world does not have a production account), the balancing item, gross value added, is shown as output less intermediate consumption.
Gross value added at basic prices for each sector differs from gross domestic product for the UK total economy.
The difference occurs because taxes less subsidies on products are not included in the production account by sector and are instead included within resources for the UK total economy.
The sum of gross value added and taxes less subsidies on products for the UK economy is equal to GDP at market prices.
The distribution and use of income accounts exist for all the institutional sectors.
These accounts describe the distribution and redistribution of income and its use in the form of final consumption.
The distribution and use of income are analysed in four stages, each of which is presented as a separate account.1.
Generation of income account - This is the first of the distribution and use of income accounts and shows the sectors and industries which are the source of income.
The generation of income account details how value added is distributed in the form of labour costs (compensation of employees) and taxes minus subsidies on production.
The balance is gross operating surplus (plus mixed income in the household sector), which is the surplus or deficit on production activities before interest, rent and income taxes.
Gross operating surplus is therefore the income which units obtain from their own use of the production facilities.2.
Allocation of primary income account -This account shows the resident units and institutional sectors as recipients rather than producers of primary income.
It demonstrates the extent to which operating surpluses are distributed (for example by dividends) to the owners of the enterprises.
Also recorded in this account is the property income received by an owner of a financial asset in return for providing funds to, or putting a tangible non-produced asset at the disposal of, another unit.
The receipt by government of taxes on production less subsidies is shown in resources.
The resources side of this account includes the components of the income approach to measuring gross domestic product and is the starting point for the quarterly sector accounts.
The accounts also include property income recorded as both resources for receipts and uses for payments.
The balance of this account is the gross balance of primary income for each sector.
If the gross balance of primary income is aggregated across all sectors of the UK economy, the result is gross national income.3.
Secondary distribution of income account -This account describes how the balance of primary income for each institutional sector is allocated by redistribution; through transfers such as taxes on income, social contributions and benefits and other current transfers.
It excludes social transfers in kind.
The balancing item of this account is gross disposable income which reflects current transactions and explicitly excludes capital transfers, real holding gains and losses and the consequences of events such as natural disasters.4.
Use of disposable income account -This account illustrates how disposable income is split between final consumption expenditure and saving.
In the system for recording economic accounts, only the government and households and NPISH sectors have final consumption.
In addition, for households and pension funds, there is an adjustment item in the account which reflects the way that transactions between households and pension funds are recorded.
The balancing item for this account and for the whole group of distribution and use of income accounts is gross saving.
It is only in the case of non-financial corporations (public and private) that undistributed income and saving are equivalent. 
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. 
In fiscal year 2011 the National Pension program recorded a surplus of ¥198 billion.
This was the third consecutive year that it had been profitable.