Climate ChangeSouth Korea fears EU green plan as China starts carbon trading
Seoul summons steel makers for talks on coping with carbon border tax
A Posco Steel plant in Pohang, South Korea, in 2018. The country's government met steelmakers on Thursday to discuss the consequences of a planned EU "carbon border tax". © Getty Images
AKANE OKUTSU and KIM JAEWON, Nikkei staff writers
TOKYO/SEOUL -- South Korea's government hosted emergency talks with the country's steelmakers on Thursday after the European Union put forward wide-ranging plans to decarbonize its economy, in a first sign of how the green policies could rebound on Asian exporters.