diff --git a/backend/app/api/carmodoo.py b/backend/app/api/carmodoo.py
index 3bd2e04..c883772 100644
--- a/backend/app/api/carmodoo.py
+++ b/backend/app/api/carmodoo.py
@@ -380,7 +380,14 @@ class CarmodooClient:
         cars = []
 
         try:
-            tree = lxml_html.fromstring(html)
+            # HTML 내부의 charset 선언 제거 (이미 UTF-8로 디코딩됨)
+            html = re.sub(r'<meta[^>]*charset[^>]*>', '', html, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+            html = re.sub(r'charset\s*=\s*["\']?euc-kr["\']?', 'charset="utf-8"', html, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+
+            # lxml에 UTF-8 인코딩임을 명시
+            from lxml.html import HTMLParser
+            parser = HTMLParser(encoding='utf-8')
+            tree = lxml_html.document_fromstring(html.encode('utf-8'), parser=parser)
 
             # 각 차량 행 찾기 (tr id="trCtl_XXXXXXX")
             car_rows = tree.xpath('//tr[starts-with(@id, "trCtl_")]')