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TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS · 2024

🇰🇷 South Korea

World rank #14 · Asia · Same as 157 million cars driven for a year a year

South Korea

157 million

cars driven for a year

723 Mt CO₂e

falling −0.7%/yr

🔥 South Korea ranks #14 because its economy — across power, industry, transport and agriculture — released 723 Mt of CO₂e in 2024.

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Top emitters here

11POSCO Holdings Inc= 15.8M cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea72.7 Mt CO₂e 37Korea Southern Power Co Ltd= 7.9M cars/yrPower · South Korea36.2 Mt CO₂e 39Korea Western Power Co Ltd= 8M cars/yrPower · South Korea37 Mt CO₂e 55Korea East-West Power Co Ltd= 7.1M cars/yrPower · South Korea32.6 Mt CO₂e 66Korea Midland Power Co Ltd= 6.6M cars/yrPower · South Korea30.3 Mt CO₂e

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67Korea South-East Power Co Ltd= 6.4M cars/yrPower · South Korea29.5 Mt CO₂e 102Hyundai Steel Co= 4.3M cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea19.8 Mt CO₂e 272Gangneung Eco Power Co Ltd= 1.3M cars/yrPower · South Korea6.2 Mt CO₂e 341Goseong Green Power Co Ltd= 1.8M cars/yrPower · South Korea8.5 Mt CO₂e 416Hyundai Oilbank Co Ltd= 1.4M cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Korea6.7 Mt CO₂e 431Sungshin Cement Co Ltd= 1.3M cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea6.1 Mt CO₂e 552SK Inc= 951k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Korea4.4 Mt CO₂e 581Sampyo Cement Co Ltd= 708k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea3.3 Mt CO₂e 623GS Energy= 754k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Korea3.5 Mt CO₂e 625Paju Energy Service Co Ltd= 783k cars/yrPower · South Korea3.6 Mt CO₂e 639Dongducheon Dream Power Co Ltd= 830k cars/yrPower · South Korea3.8 Mt CO₂e 657Samcheok Blue Power Co Ltd= 716k cars/yrPower · South Korea3.3 Mt CO₂e 683Lotte Chemical Corp= 714k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea3.3 Mt CO₂e 697GS EPS Co Ltd= 708k cars/yrPower · South Korea3.3 Mt CO₂e 710Pocheon Power Co Ltd= 645k cars/yrPower · South Korea3 Mt CO₂e 711Ssangyong C&E Co Ltd= 633k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.9 Mt CO₂e 746Union Corp= 517k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.4 Mt CO₂e 769Hanil Cement Co Ltd= 538k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.5 Mt CO₂e 795Hanwha Group= 562k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.6 Mt CO₂e 864LG Chemical= 486k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.2 Mt CO₂e 880S-Power Co Ltd= 427k cars/yrPower · South Korea2 Mt CO₂e 904Ulsan GPS Corp= 422k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.9 Mt CO₂e 971Yeoju Energy Service Co Ltd= 376k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.7 Mt CO₂e 1000China General Nuclear Power New Energy Holdings Co Ltd= 383k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.8 Mt CO₂e 1009ST International Corp= 405k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.9 Mt CO₂e 1031Tongyeong Eco Power= 316k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.5 Mt CO₂e 1045GS Power Co Ltd= 339k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.6 Mt CO₂e 1046Daelim Co Ltd= 337k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea1.5 Mt CO₂e 1106SK Hynix= 300k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.4 Mt CO₂e 1114Asia Cement Co Ltd= 353k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea1.6 Mt CO₂e 1121SGC Energy Co Ltd= 291k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.3 Mt CO₂e 1131OCI SE Co Ltd= 297k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.4 Mt CO₂e 1133Hanwha Energy Corp= 285k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.3 Mt CO₂e 1142Kumho Petrochemical Co Ltd= 291k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.3 Mt CO₂e 1151Pocheon IPP Co Ltd= 272k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.3 Mt CO₂e 1158Korea Petrochemical Industries Corp= 265k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea1.2 Mt CO₂e 1159SK Innovation Co Ltd= 265k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.2 Mt CO₂e 1181Kangdong C&L Co Ltd= 197k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea906.2 kt CO₂e 1221Pyeongtaek Energy Service Co= 230k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.1 Mt CO₂e 1239Hanju Corp= 206k cars/yrPower · South Korea946 kt CO₂e 1262Korea District Heating Corp= 301k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.4 Mt CO₂e 1266Naepo Green Energy Co Ltd= 188k cars/yrPower · South Korea864.8 kt CO₂e 1354GS E&R Corp= 166k cars/yrPower · South Korea763.4 kt CO₂e 1359Daegu Green Power Co Ltd= 156k cars/yrPower · South Korea717.8 kt CO₂e 1365Narae Energy Service Co Ltd= 155k cars/yrPower · South Korea712.6 kt CO₂e

Largest sites

Asset	Sector	Annual emissions	Confidence
POSCO Gwangyang steel plant	Manufacturing	38.5 Mt	medium
POSCO Pohang steel plant	Manufacturing	29.1 Mt	medium
Taean power station	Power	29 Mt	medium
Dangjin power station	Power	22.2 Mt	medium
Hyundai Steel Dangjin steel plant	Manufacturing	19.8 Mt	medium
Yeongheung power station	Power	17.8 Mt	medium
Hadong power station	Power	15.8 Mt	medium
Boryeong power station	Power	15.4 Mt	medium
Incheon International Airport	Transport	13.6 Mt	medium
Samcheok Green power station	Power	9.2 Mt	medium
GS-Caltex Yeosu Refinery	Fossil Fuels	8.9 Mt	very low
Goseong Green power station	Power	8.5 Mt	medium
Busan South	Transport	8.4 Mt	very low
Samchonpo power station	Power	7.4 Mt	medium
SK Ulsan Refinery	Fossil Fuels	7.3 Mt	low

Trend

National total, 2016–2024. Source: Climate TRACE. South Korea is falling at −0.7% year on year.

Getting better — based on the last 9 years of measured data.

What we know · what we don't

Confidence reflects how completely Climate TRACE has measured this country’s emissions; coverage shows the share of those emissions we can tie to a named owner. Both feed the 0–100 Climate Damage Score above. Untraced emissions are real — they just don’t yet have a named owner in the open datasets we use.

Where this comes from

Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0 · World Bank — population