SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 04 (Korea Bizwire) – “Swallows seen to be flying low signify the arrival of rain. Spiders starting their web spinning foretell a sunny day tomorrow.” For Koreans who have lived more than five thousand years tilling the land, weather forecasting based on every clue at their disposal has been one of [...]
DAEGU, South Korea, Oct 02 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu Metropolitan City Government, jointly with EM Korea, held on October 2 a completion ceremony for the nation’s largest hydrogen charging station within the city. The ceremony was attended by Daegu City deputy mayor for economic affairs Kim Yeon-chang, Daegu City Council president Lee Jae-sool, and other industry leaders. [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 25 (Korea Bizwire) – What is ‘Energy Consulting?’ It is a consulting service recently launched by the Seoul City government and Korea Telecom to help apartment residents reduce their electric bills. Teams of consultants visit apartments on demand and conduct technical, structural and administrative analysis on actual conditions of energy use [...]
BRENHAM, Texas, Sept. 17, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai of Brenham, located in Brenham, Texas, was recently awarded LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Council members were impressed with the building’s innovative use of recycled building materials, on-site waste and water-management, utilization of alternate-fuel vehicles and renewable energy, and general sustainability plan. Hyundai of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 09 (Korea Bizwire) – Energizer Korea said on September 8 that it held the previous day a tree-planting event at Haneul “Sky” Park near the Seoul World Cup Stadium in west Seoul. As part of a wider campaign “That’s Positive Energy” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and green the environment, the company [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 05 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s electric utility KEPCO, jointly with the Seoul city government and the Korea Environment Corp., said on September 5 that it would begin allowing electric car drivers to use high-speed rechargers owned by the three organizations. The three entities had agreed in March this year to share the recharging [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 04 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Hawzoom (www.haezoom.com), an online site specializing in solar energy, announce on September 2 that it has reorganized its main website to offer the information customers need by continuously adding additional services. ‘Haezoom,’ a site that helps the general public better understand photovoltaic energy and install solar panels correctly, opened [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 03 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics (LG) announced that its washing machine (Model F14A8QDA) is the first in the global home appliance industry to receive the Water Footprint verification from Norway’s Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an independent foundation that evaluates and certifies the performance of products across a wide variety of industries globally. [...]
DAEJEON, South Korea, Aug 22 (Korea Bizwire) – As more and more Koreans go outdoors, the demand for better camping gear is increasing as well. In particular, people are looking for ways to be able to use electronic goods in places such as beaches and mountains. Now it seems portable solar power chargers will allow campers to [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of ‘Green Buildings’ that contribute to improving a clean and healthy living environment through the efficient use of energy and environment-friendly construction technology is on the rise in Seoul. The city government of Seoul has actively promoted green buildings by offering incentives, most notably tax cuts [...]