South Korea’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center (GIR / 온실가스종합정보센터) has released its monthly emissions trading bulletin for December 2025, according to a notice on the agency’s official information portal. The release takes the form of a downloadable HWP-format file. The filename includes the suffix “_수정,” indicating this is a corrected or revised version of the December data.
The bulletin is part of GIR’s routine series of monthly emissions trading disclosures, which covers allowance transaction data under South Korea’s Emissions Trading Scheme (K-ETS). The previous entry in the series covers November 2025, confirming the monthly cadence.
Substantive trading figures — including transaction volumes, price levels, and participant data — would be contained within the attached file, which was not available for review from the source text provided.
Carbon Market Context
- In-house research note: The DATA CONTEXT methodologies returned (e.g., Isometric Biogenic Carbon Capture v1.4, Verra VM0043 CO2-in-Concrete, Puro.Earth Geologically Stored Carbon 2024) reflect a semantic search against “emissions trading scheme” but are voluntary carbon market CDR methodologies with no direct connection to the K-ETS allowance market described in this source. They are included here for awareness only.
- In-house research note: The related policy discourse entries are from Japan’s GX League (March 2026) and concern Japanese green market and talent-market working groups — they are not directly related to this Korean ETS bulletin, though both fall under Northeast Asian carbon market developments worth monitoring in parallel.
- In-house research note: The aggregate market snapshot in the research (453,185 projects; ~4.35 Gt CO2e total) reflects voluntary carbon market registry data globally and should not be conflated with K-ETS compliance allowance data.
Source
- 2025년 12월 배출권 거래정보온실가스종합정보센터 (GIR), date not stated on source page