Korea Green Building Council (KGBC), founded in 2000, recognizes that the dissemination of green building is one of the most important duties in the building construction sector with the mission of making the earth sustainable by green buildings.

KGBC is an independent (non-government) and non-profit organization fully committed to applying environmental best practices to facilitate the transformation of the global sustainable building industry. KGBC is an emerging member of the World Green Building Council (WGBC), based in Toronto, Canada. WGBC now consists of 89 countries and has only one GBC in each country.