Carbonates in South Korea

Carbonates in South Korea was significantly influenced by the "slow ageing" trend in 2025, driving robust growth for reduced sugar and zero-calorie options, despite emerging concerns about artificial sweeteners. Flavour innovation, exemplified by PepsiCo's mojito Pepsi Zero and Hite Jinro's tomato tonic, was also a key growth driver. Lotte Chilsung narrowed the gap with the leader Coca-Cola through strategic diversification, pack innovation, and transparency initiatives.

This report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data (2020-2025), allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they legislative, distribution, packaging or pricing issues. Forecasts to 2030 illustrate how the market is set to change.

Product coverage: Cola Carbonates, Non-Cola Carbonates, Reduced Sugar Carbonates, Regular Carbonates.

Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.

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• Get a detailed picture of the Carbonates market;
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• Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.