This photograph taken May 22 shows a Tesla logo on the body of a car belonging to an electric car rental company parked in Warsaw. AFP-Yonhap
Online shopping sales in Korea jumped 10 percent from a year earlier in April to hit a record high, driven by orders for Tesla electric vehicles through its website, data showed Monday.
The value of online shopping came to 24.1 trillion won ($15.9 billion) for the cited month, up 2.1 trillion won from a year earlier, according to data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics.
It marked the highest figure for any April since the government started compiling the data in 2017.
Spending on cars and automotive products more than doubled to 1.04 trillion won, jumping 154.8 percent year-on-year on the back of strong sales of Tesla EVs.
