In select a region , there are currently coal plants operating,

which emit a total of ten thousand tons of greenhouse gases every year.

Those emissions are equal to the greenhouse gases emitted by thousand cars.

Every year, as many as people could die from the air pollutants emitted by those plants.

Coal in

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    thousand cars’ worth of emissions

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    premature
    deaths caused

Yearly deaths caused, by region

Click each province to see how many premature deaths could be caused by the coal plants in Korea.

Seoul

161people

Busan

45people

Daegu

29people

Incheon

56people

Gwangju

35people

Daejeon

29people

Ulsan

13people

Sejong

2people

Gyeonggi Province

290people

Gangwon-do Province

25people

Chungcheongbuk-do Province

31people

Chungcheongnam-do Province

56people

Jeollabuk-do Province

44people

Jeollanam-do Province

55people

Gyeongsangbuk-do Province

44people

Gyeongsangnam-do Province

76people

Jeju

5people

In Seoul, 161 people could die from the air pollutants

emitted by the 60 operating coal plants in Korea.

Data Source

CO2 Emission: Official Information Disclosure
Premature deaths : Source "Bad electricity that kills, coal-fired electricity report, climate solution")