SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Seongdong District announced on Wednesday the establishment of a collaborative network between the public and private sectors, marking the country’s first cork recycling project in its pursuit of zero carbon emissions. The district entered into an agreement with S-Build, a sports facility construction company specializing in cork recycling [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), South Korea’s state-owned railway operator, said Tuesday it will begin offering jobs to homeless people living near subway stations in Seoul, Busan, and eight other locations. KORAIL, in collaboration with local governments and support centers for the homeless, will provide jobs to 100 homeless individuals [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In a display of community engagement, the Seoul Autonomous Police Committee held the highly anticipated “2023 Seoul Dog Patrol Team Launching Ceremony” on Sunday. With an impressive 700 teams in attendance, this innovative program combines the daily walks of dogs with crime prevention activities to spot and report crimes [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) —The use of the virtual world known as the metaverse has been proposed as a potential tool to alleviate the psychological strain on students subjected to school violence during police investigations, according to a recent publication titled “Police Investigation of School Violence Victims Using Metaverse,” featured in the journal Police [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A ‘blue hydrogen’ production facility has been established in the southeastern city of Changwon, the first of its kind in South Korea. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, but emissions are eliminated by capturing and storing the emitted carbon. The Ministry of Environment and the Changwon city government [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday announced a pilot project to promote the chemical recycling of waste hanging banners in partnership with chemical firm SK Geocentric Co. The initiative involves removing strings and poles from discarded banners and sending them to SK Geocentric to determine if they can be [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has announced plans to produce clean hydrogen using biogas from sewage waste. The company announced on Tuesday that it had signed a business agreement with the city government of Cheongju in North Chungcheong Province and the Institute for Advanced Engineering. The agreement [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A social enterprise backed by SK Innovation Co., the energy and chemical affiliate of the South Korean conglomerate SK Group, has unveiled a lightweight safety helmet made by recycling waste helmets. Usisan said on Tuesday it had developed a lightweight safety helmet by recycling waste safety helmets and plastic [...]
BUSAN, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, is set to make the nation’s first attempt to measure the density of pollutants in the atmosphere by installing sensors on city buses. The Busan metropolitan government said Sunday that mobile atmospheric control systems have been installed on 54 city buses, and a pilot [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., the display arm of Samsung Electronics Co., said Thursday it plans to use 20,000 tons of recycled cement for the construction of its new building. The cement will be made from waste glass generated during the display production process. The new building is expected to be [...]