Developing Countries & Global Climate Change: Electric Power
Options in Korea Prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate
Change Jin-Gyu Oh, Korea Energy Economics Institute Jeffrey
Logan, Battelle, Advanced International Studies Unit William
Chandler, Battelle, Advanced International Studies Unit Jinwoo
Kim, Korea Energy Economics Institute Sung Bong Jo, Korea Energy
Economics Institute Dong-Seok Roh, Korea Energy Economics
Institute Eileen Claussen, Executive Director, Pew Center on
Global Climate Change The Republic of Korea straddles the line
between developed and developing countries. Power demand is
expanding rapidly - a "business-as-usual" path doubles
consumption by 2015 - and the economy is driven largely by
basic, energy-intensive industries. In addition, Korea imports
over 90 percent of its fuel. Because of this, the energy choices
Korea makes are complicated and may have ramifications for the
global environment that outstrip the nation's size. They could
leave Korea's greenhouse gas emissions vi