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South Korea PDF

Monthly domestic vehicle sales by powertrain for South Korea from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources' «자동차산업 동향» (automotive industry trends) press release — domestic makers plus imports, battery-electric, plug-in, hybrid and hydrogen cars broken out.

2026-08

Latest period held

20.5%

TTM BEV share (Whole)

Variants

Raw source

Go and check the numbers yourself:

MOTIR (산업통상부) — «자동차산업 동향» monthly press release ↗

August 2026 release (example; PDF + HWPX attached) — 표 3 «생산, 내수, 수출량» gives total domestic sales; 참고 2 «친환경차 차종별 내수» the powertrain split
KOTSA new-registration statistics API (not used — see the developer doc) — registrations by vehicle type × fuel × model code; needs a data.go.kr key and has no plug-in split

How the data flows

Origin

KAMA (한국자동차모빌리티산업협회, domestic makers) and KAIDA (한국수입자동차협회, imports), compiled by MOTIR

Source / API

MOTIR (산업통상부) — «자동차산업 동향» monthly press release

Fetcher

scripts/fetch_south_korea.py · .github/workflows/fetch-south-korea.yml

Store

data/South Korea.csv

Gallery

BEV Trajectories gallery

Definitions & scope

Acquisition	PDF — parsed from a published PDF
Vehicle scope	Domestic sales (내수 판매), not registrations — all vehicle types, domestic makers plus imports reported by KAIDA. Petrol and diesel are not split; combustion is one ICE figure = total − eco-friendly cars.
HEV (full hybrids)	Hybrids are their own column; imported hybrids include mild hybrids (KAIDA counts them together), domestic makers' do not. Plug-in hybrids and hydrogen cars (OTHERS) are separate.
Backfill	2017-01 → 2024-12 entered by hand from these releases (the older PDFs hold the table as a graphic, so they are not re-parsed); 2025-01 → automated and cross-checked
Auth	none

Variants

Each variant is its own series with its own CSV. Not every variant is charted in the gallery — the CSV is the authoritative record either way.

Variant	What it counts	Held	Raw data
Whole	Domestic sales of new vehicles of all types (passenger cars and commercial vehicles), domestic makers plus KAIDA-member imports.	2017-01 – 2026-08 116 rows	`data/South Korea.csv`

History we hold

Every bar is the span actually present in our stored CSV — breaks in a bar are real gaps in the series, not rendering. Cadence is shown on the right.

Whole 2017-01–2026-08 (116 rows).

Which fuel columns this source fills

A blank column almost never means "no such cars" — it means this source does not split them out, and those vehicles are counted inside another column. Check the caveats for where they land.

	BEV	PHEV	HEV	ICE	OTHERS
Whole	reported	reported	reported	reported	reported

reported column exists but is zero in every row not reported by this source. Hover a cell for the row count.

Caveats

All vehicle types, not only passenger cars (EU M1) — trucks, vans and buses are in the total (the release does not state their share). Compare the level with M1-only countries with care.
Sales as reported by the makers' and importers' associations, not registry counts.
Imported hybrids include mild hybrids (KAIDA does not separate them before 2025 and MOTIR adds them together); domestic makers' mild hybrids are not in the hybrid figure.
{'Tesla is missing before 2024': 'KAIDA only counts Tesla from 2024 data on, so BEV and the total are too low up to 2023-12 (roughly 10 % of BEV in 2021–2023) — a step at 2024-01. BYD (from 2025) is included. See issue'}
MOTIR revises the previous month in the following release; the series always holds the latest published figure.
{'2017–2024 were entered by hand from the same releases and are not re-verified automatically; from 2025 every month is parsed and cross-checked (two transcription errors in the hand-entered rows were corrected': '2025-09 and 2026-04).'}