Airports in South Korea
15 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.
South Korea has 15 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 8 of them large. The busiest are Incheon International Airport (ICN, 74.1 million passengers, Korea Airports Corporation, 2025), Jeju International Airport (CJU, 29.7 million passengers, Wikidata, 2022) and Seoul Gimpo International Airport (GMP, 23.0 million passengers, Korea Airports Corporation, 2025). Seoul has more than one airport; a city code (SEL for Seoul) stands for all of a city's airports on tickets and in flight searches.
Cities with more than one airport
Busiest routes
| Route | Distance | Passengers |
|---|---|---|
| ICN – NRT | 1,260 km | 2,519,026 (6 mo) |
| ICN – KIX | 862 km | 2,313,960 (6 mo) |
| FUK – ICN | 563 km | 1,708,245 (6 mo) |
| HKG – ICN | 2,067 km | 1,316,010 (6 mo) |
| ICN – TPE | 1,460 km | 1,184,972 (6 mo) |
| ICN – PVG | 821 km | 1,111,272 (6 mo) |
| BKK – ICN | 3,665 km | 950,069 (6 mo) |
| DAD – ICN | 2,976 km | 941,076 (6 mo) |
| ICN – SIN | 4,614 km | 900,158 (6 mo) |
| ICN – TAO | 580 km | 797,360 (6 mo) |
| ICN – PUS | 338 km | 214,422 (6 mo) |
| GUM – PUS | 2,883 km | 90,464 |
| ICN – TAE | 263 km | 25,463 (6 mo) |
| CJU – ICN | 439 km | 5,071 (6 mo) |
| PUS – SPN | 2,784 km | 1,113 |
| ATL – PUS | 11,635 km | 516 |
| DTW – PUS | 10,828 km | 262 |
| PUS – SEA | 8,440 km | 262 |
| BOS – PUS | 11,182 km | 241 |
Questions
South Korea has 15 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 8 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.
Incheon International Airport (ICN), Jeju International Airport (CJU), Seoul Gimpo International Airport (GMP), Gimhae International Airport (PUS), Cheongju International Airport/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ) and Daegu International Airport (TAE), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.
Incheon International Airport (ICN), with 74.1 million passengers (Korea Airports Corporation, 2025).
Seoul (SEL: ICN, GMP).