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The charcoal industry in Korea is in crisis due to poor competitiveness resulted from the increase of imported charcoal and material expense. In addition to charcoal production, traditional charcoal kiln can be used for thermal therapy using waste heat that can contribute on the additional benefits for the charcoal producers. But using traditional charcoal kiln for thermal therapy has problems such as safety and public health. Therefore in our previous research, we made a safe and pleasant charcoal kiln for thermal therapy. We compared some characteristics of the white charcoal made from thermal therapy kiln and traditional kiln. For evaluation both kilns anatomical and physical characteristics, calorific value and proximate analyses such as ash contents, volatile matter, fixed carbon, pH were conducted to compare the quality of charcoal. The results showed that white charcoal from thermal therapy had similar quality with the white charcoal from traditional kiln.