South Korea: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 12 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 348 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 65,482,307 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 11.297 billion mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | HL (2016) |
| Airports | 111 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 71 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 19 1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 914 to 1,523 m: 13 under 914 m: 23 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 40 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 38 (2013) |
| Heliports | 466 (2013) |
| Pipelines | gas 2,216 km; oil 16 km; refined products 889 km (2013) |
| Railways | total: 3,460 km standard gauge: 3,460 km 1.435-m gauge (1,422 km electrified) (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 104,983 km paved: 83,199 km (includes 3,779 km of expressways) unpaved: 21,784 km (2009) |
| Waterways | 1,600 km (most navigable only by small craft) (2011) |
| Merchant marine | total: 786 by type: bulk carrier 191, cargo 235, carrier 8, chemical tanker 130, container 72, liquefied gas 44, passenger 5, passenger/cargo 15, petroleum tanker 55, refrigerated cargo 15, roll on/roll off 10, vehicle carrier 6 foreign-owned: 31 (China 6, France 2, Japan 14, Taiwan 1, US 8) registered in other countries: 457 (Bahamas 1, Cambodia 10, Ghana 1, Honduras 6, Hong Kong 3, Indonesia 2, Kiribati 1, Liberia 2, Malta 2, Marshall Islands 41, North Korea 1, Panama 373, Philippines 1, Russia 1, Singapore 3, Tuvalu 1, unknown 8) (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Busan, Incheon, Gunsan, Kwangyang, Mokpo, Pohang, Ulsan, Yeosu container port(s) (TEUs): Busan (16,163,842), Kwangyang (2,061,958), Incheon (1,924,644) LNG terminal(s) (import): Incheon, Kwangyang, Pyeongtaek, Samcheok, Tongyeong, Yeosu |