diff --git a/zeppelin-web-angular/projects/zeppelin-react/src/utils/exportFile.spec.ts b/zeppelin-web-angular/projects/zeppelin-react/src/utils/exportFile.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..adc654cbfff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/zeppelin-web-angular/projects/zeppelin-react/src/utils/exportFile.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+import { exportFile } from './exportFile';
+
+const saveAs = vi.fn();
+vi.mock('file-saver', () => ({ saveAs: (...args: unknown[]) => saveAs(...args) }));
+
+const UTF8_BOM = [0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf];
+
+/** The saved bytes, since Blob.text() decodes and drops a leading BOM. */
+async function savedBytes(): Promise<Uint8Array> {
+  expect(saveAs).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+  const blob = saveAs.mock.calls[0][0] as Blob;
+  return new Uint8Array(await blob.arrayBuffer());
+}
+
+describe('exportFile', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    saveAs.mockClear();
+  });
+
+  it('prepends a UTF-8 BOM to the CSV so Excel reads it as UTF-8', async () => {
+    await exportFile({ columnNames: ['name', 'city'], rows: [['alice', '서울']] }, 'csv');
+
+    const bytes = await savedBytes();
+    expect([...bytes.subarray(0, 3)]).toEqual(UTF8_BOM);
+    expect(new TextDecoder().decode(bytes.subarray(3))).toBe('name,city\nalice,서울');
+    expect(saveAs.mock.calls[0][1]).toBe('export.csv');
+  });
+
+  it('does not export an empty table', async () => {
+    await exportFile({ columnNames: ['name'], rows: [] }, 'csv');
+
+    expect(saveAs).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/zeppelin-web-angular/projects/zeppelin-react/src/utils/exportFile.ts b/zeppelin-web-angular/projects/zeppelin-react/src/utils/exportFile.ts
index c59525309f2..8b82c610758 100644
--- a/zeppelin-web-angular/projects/zeppelin-react/src/utils/exportFile.ts
+++ b/zeppelin-web-angular/projects/zeppelin-react/src/utils/exportFile.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ export const exportFile = async (tableData: TableData, type: 'csv' | 'xlsx') =>
     const rows = tableData.rows.map(row => row.join(separator));
     const content = [header, ...rows].join('\n');
 
-    const blob = new Blob([content], { type: 'text/plain;charset=utf-8' });
+    // Excel reads a CSV without a BOM in the system code page, garbling non-ASCII data. The
+    // Angular and classic exports write one for the same reason (ZEPPELIN-672).
+    const BOM = '\uFEFF';
+    const blob = new Blob([BOM, content], { type: 'text/plain;charset=utf-8' });
     saveAs(blob, `export.${type}`);
   }
 };