SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics hosted a tree planting ceremony and concert to celebrate the cultivation of the ‘Forest of Wind’ at Seoul Grand Park in cooperation with the Korea Energy Management Corporation (KEMCO) on August 17. Officials from both companies and Seoul Grand Park, and figure skating star Kim [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Environment announced that government organizations have succeeded in reducing approximately 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, or 8.1% compared to the standard exhaust quantity set for 2012. The amount of carbon dioxide reduced in 2012 is the equivalent to planting 78.8-million pine trees, and [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) announced that it received the Carbon Trust Standard certification. The certification ceremony was held on August 8 with a number of officials in attendance including Darran Messem, managing director of Carbon Trust Certification at Carbon Trust, and Jin Hong, chairman of the Korea Productivity Center. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The city government of Seoul will promote a project to transform into ‘Environment-friendly LED Stores’ until 2014. The government plans to replace lightings of approximately 35,000 stores, or about 30 percent of all 114,000 stores in Seoul, focusing first on those that are open 24 hours a day and thus [...]
GUMI, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station. Likewise, an OLEV tram does not require pantographs to feed power from [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 08 (Korea Bizwire) – With the recent heat wave and heavy rainfall vegetables prices have skyrocketed. Now more people are growing their own vegetables on apartment balconies and other available places within the city. The rise of ‘balcony farmers’ has led to an increase in seeds and culture soil sales, and books on how [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 01 (Korea Bizwire) – GM Korea announced on July 30th that the ‘Cheongla Test Driving Track’ located in Seo-gu, Incheon, will be designated as its sixth buried waste-free facility. GM is working on a project to make all its facilities around the world waste-free as part of its environment-friendly policy. The company factory in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Soon, homeowners will be allowed to pay home renovation costs in installments from subsequent energy savings. This is intended to encourage voluntary “green remodeling” by reducing the cost burden for the owners. Given 74 percent of homes in Korea are older than 15 years, the latest measure is expected [...]
SEOUL, Korea, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey found more than 30 endangered animal species within the military demarcation line, including the Siberian musk deer, long-tailed goral, and Eurasian otter. The Ministry of Environment and the National Institute of Environmental Research said on July 16 they conducted last year a joint investigation in [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting January next year, the manufacture, importation, or sale of incandescent light bulbs for general lighting purposes will be banned. Since the first use of the incandescent light bulb at Royal Gyeongbok Palace in 1887, it has been 127 years until the official phase-out. The Ministry of Trade, Industry, [...]