Sinan's Salt Fields

신안군 천일염전

Sinan-gun produces most of South Korea's solar sea salt. Its salt pans are spread across the islands of the county. The official record shows where the salt comes from, how much is made, and how much licensed pan now stands idle.

Salt farms by eup/myeon

Choose a measure and a year. Select an eup/myeon on the map or in the list to bring it forward. The trend and composition charts below follow the same selection.

Measure
Year
Map of Sinan-gun by eup/myeonChoropleth of the selected measure for the selected year. Sea is blue; eup/myeon without data are hatched.

    Trends for all of Sinan

    Output, salt-pan area and producers, 2018–2025. Click any bar or point to move the map to that year.

    Output

    Solar salt produced, tonnes

    Licensed and operating area

    Hectares. The shaded gap is licensed pan that did not operate.

    Licensed and operating producers

    Count. 2018–2024 count producers; 2025 counts businesses.

    Where Sinan's output comes from

    Output by eup/myeon, 2018–2024, stacked largest at the base. Hover a block for its value; click it to select that eup/myeon on the map and in the trends.

    Sinan among Korea's salt-producing si/gun

    Two comparisons at the dates the sources cover. They use different sources and are not combined.

    All salt-producing si/gun, 2019

    Pale bar: licensed. Solid bar: operating.

      Jeollanam-do si/gun, 2008 and 2023

      Operating basis in both years. Log scale.

        Jeollanam-do output since 1990

        Province and national solar salt output, with Sinan where figures exist. Numbered marks are events the cited sources document.

          Method and sources

          How the figures on this page were collected, labelled and checked.

          Reported or calculated

          Every value shown is reported by a cited source, except changes since 2018, shares of the Sinan total and ranks. Those are calculated from two cited figures and labelled "calculated".

          Licensed or operating

          Licensed figures count all permitted salt pan or producers, idle ones included. Operating figures count only those producing that year. The two are never merged.

          Zero or missing

          Missing values are hatched or marked "no data" and never drawn as zero. In KOSIS tables "-" means 자료없음 (no data). A reported zero, where one exists, is drawn as an open marker.

          Units

          The KOSIS table counts producers (생산자수, persons). Other sources count businesses or sites (업체 / 개소). Charts keep the two apart and do not compare across them.

          All figures used on this page