Oxygen chemisorption on a porous coal char was investigated by a typical consecutive pyrolysis and chemisorption experiments in a thermogravimetic analyzer. Small amounts of carbon-oxygen surface complexes are gasified to CO and CO₂ during the oxygen chemisorption at 423 K. The kinetic equation of oxygen chemisorption on porous char including gasification of surface oxides well represents the chemisorption/gasification behavior of oxygen on the coal char. The activation energy and the frequency factor for oxygen chemisorption on coal-char are found to be 57 kJ/mol and 9.16×10⁶/hr, respectively.