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TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS · 2024

🇰🇷 South Korea

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

157 million
cars driven for a year
723 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent 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.

This country's place in the global league table of yearly CO₂e.Average emissions per person, per year.How much of this country's emissions traces to a named owner.World Bank, 2024.AsiaContinent
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Climate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.
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Top emitters here
11POSCO Holdings Inc= 15.8M cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea72.7 Mt CO₂eNEW37Korea Southern Power Co Ltd= 7.9M cars/yrPower · South Korea36.2 Mt CO₂eNEW39Korea Western Power Co Ltd= 8M cars/yrPower · South Korea37 Mt CO₂eNEW55Korea East-West Power Co Ltd= 7.1M cars/yrPower · South Korea32.6 Mt CO₂eNEW66Korea Midland Power Co Ltd= 6.6M cars/yrPower · South Korea30.3 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all top emitters (50)
67Korea South-East Power Co Ltd= 6.4M cars/yrPower · South Korea29.5 Mt CO₂eNEW102Hyundai Steel Co= 4.3M cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea19.8 Mt CO₂eNEW272Gangneung Eco Power Co Ltd= 1.3M cars/yrPower · South Korea6.2 Mt CO₂eNEW341Goseong Green Power Co Ltd= 1.8M cars/yrPower · South Korea8.5 Mt CO₂eNEW416Hyundai Oilbank Co Ltd= 1.4M cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Korea6.7 Mt CO₂eNEW431Sungshin Cement Co Ltd= 1.3M cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea6.1 Mt CO₂eNEW552SK Inc= 951k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Korea4.4 Mt CO₂eNEW581Sampyo Cement Co Ltd= 708k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea3.3 Mt CO₂eNEW623GS Energy= 754k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Korea3.5 Mt CO₂eNEW625Paju Energy Service Co Ltd= 783k cars/yrPower · South Korea3.6 Mt CO₂eNEW639Dongducheon Dream Power Co Ltd= 830k cars/yrPower · South Korea3.8 Mt CO₂eNEW657Samcheok Blue Power Co Ltd= 716k cars/yrPower · South Korea3.3 Mt CO₂eNEW683Lotte Chemical Corp= 714k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea3.3 Mt CO₂eNEW697GS EPS Co Ltd= 708k cars/yrPower · South Korea3.3 Mt CO₂eNEW710Pocheon Power Co Ltd= 645k cars/yrPower · South Korea3 Mt CO₂eNEW711Ssangyong C&E Co Ltd= 633k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.9 Mt CO₂eNEW746Union Corp= 517k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.4 Mt CO₂eNEW769Hanil Cement Co Ltd= 538k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.5 Mt CO₂eNEW795Hanwha Group= 562k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.6 Mt CO₂eNEW864LG Chemical= 486k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea2.2 Mt CO₂eNEW880S-Power Co Ltd= 427k cars/yrPower · South Korea2 Mt CO₂eNEW904Ulsan GPS Corp= 422k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.9 Mt CO₂eNEW971Yeoju Energy Service Co Ltd= 376k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.7 Mt CO₂eNEW1000China General Nuclear Power New Energy Holdings Co Ltd= 383k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.8 Mt CO₂eNEW1009ST International Corp= 405k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.9 Mt CO₂eNEW1031Tongyeong Eco Power= 316k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.5 Mt CO₂eNEW1045GS Power Co Ltd= 339k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.6 Mt CO₂eNEW1046Daelim Co Ltd= 337k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea1.5 Mt CO₂eNEW1106SK Hynix= 300k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.4 Mt CO₂eNEW1114Asia Cement Co Ltd= 353k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea1.6 Mt CO₂eNEW1121SGC Energy Co Ltd= 291k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.3 Mt CO₂eNEW1131OCI SE Co Ltd= 297k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.4 Mt CO₂eNEW1133Hanwha Energy Corp= 285k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.3 Mt CO₂eNEW1142Kumho Petrochemical Co Ltd= 291k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.3 Mt CO₂eNEW1151Pocheon IPP Co Ltd= 272k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.3 Mt CO₂eNEW1158Korea Petrochemical Industries Corp= 265k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea1.2 Mt CO₂eNEW1159SK Innovation Co Ltd= 265k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.2 Mt CO₂eNEW1181Kangdong C&L Co Ltd= 197k cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea906.2 kt CO₂eNEW1221Pyeongtaek Energy Service Co= 230k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.1 Mt CO₂eNEW1239Hanju Corp= 206k cars/yrPower · South Korea946 kt CO₂eNEW1262Korea District Heating Corp= 301k cars/yrPower · South Korea1.4 Mt CO₂eNEW1266Naepo Green Energy Co Ltd= 188k cars/yrPower · South Korea864.8 kt CO₂eNEW1354GS E&R Corp= 166k cars/yrPower · South Korea763.4 kt CO₂eNEW1359Daegu Green Power Co Ltd= 156k cars/yrPower · South Korea717.8 kt CO₂eNEW1365Narae Energy Service Co Ltd= 155k cars/yrPower · South Korea712.6 kt CO₂eNEW
Largest sites
AssetSectorAnnual emissionsConfidence
POSCO Gwangyang steel plantManufacturing38.5 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
POSCO Pohang steel plantManufacturing29.1 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Taean power stationPower29 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Dangjin power stationPower22.2 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Hyundai Steel Dangjin steel plantManufacturing19.8 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Yeongheung power stationPower17.8 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Hadong power stationPower15.8 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Boryeong power stationPower15.4 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Incheon International AirportTransport13.6 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Samcheok Green power stationPower9.2 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
GS-Caltex Yeosu RefineryFossil Fuels8.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Goseong Green power stationPower8.5 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
Busan SouthTransport8.4 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Samchonpo power stationPower7.4 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentmedium
SK Ulsan RefineryFossil Fuels7.3 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentlow
Trend
711 Mt791 Mt870 Mt20162024

National total, 2016–2024. Source: Climate TRACE.

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

What's known · what isn't
How sure the measurement is. A low score doesn't lower the polluter's rank; it just shows the data is fuzzier.How much of this country's emissions traces to a named owner.

Untraced emissions are real; they just don’t yet have a named owner in the open datasets in use.

Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0 · World Bank · population