SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s ultrafine dust emissions fell 8.5 percent on-year in 2017 as manufacturers cut back coal usage and old vehicles were replaced, government data showed Tuesday. The country’s ultrafine dust emissions totaled 91,731 tons in 2017, down by 8,516 tons from the previous year, according to the National Center [...]
JEONJU, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeonju, a southwestern South Korean city, has announced a plan to purchase all of the city’s urban parks that are subject to re-development under the so-called sunset system. Under this scheme, land designated for urban green space can be re-developed if municipal governments wait more than 20 years to [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Recycled transparent plastic bottles have been reborn as various high-quality products, such as clothing, bags and cosmetic bottles, under the government’s new waste recycling policy, the Ministry of Environment said Tuesday. Under the recycling policy that went into effect in February this year, discarded transparent plastic bottles have been [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has halted interior remodeling work at the courthouse building to give time for newly born birds found in a nest inside the building to grow and fly on their own, officials said Sunday. Construction workers found the nest holding three eggs inside an open-roofed area of [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The most significant partial solar eclipse in eight years will be visible in South Korea on Sunday afternoon, leaving a little less than half the solar disk visible, a national science museum said. The moon will start to move between the Earth and the sun at 3:53 p.m., with [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — To prevent coronavirus epidemics which are spread by wildlife vectors, it’s better to attempt to improve the overall health of the ecosystem rather than passively taking ex-post countermeasures, according to a new report released by a state-run body affiliated with the Prime Minister’s Office. The Korea Environment Institute published [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Reducing fine dust particles should be the top priority among the government’s environmental policies, according to a poll of ordinary citizens and experts released on Saturday. The poll was conducted by the Ministry of Environment on 700 citizens and 510 experts last year to collect their opinions on environmental [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s municipal government said Saturday it has translated its guidelines on separate disposal of food waste into 10 foreign languages for distribution to foreigners living in the capital. The 10 languages are English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Russian, Mongolian, French, Malay, Hindi and Thai. The government said the move comes [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Little terns, an endangered bird species frequenting Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, are dwindling in population due to indiscreet actions by local mountain bikers and photographers. Last Thursday, two tern chicks were found on the coast of Pohang, recently hatched from eggs. A pair of female and male terns were [...]
JEJU, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Black corals, a legally protected species living off the coast of Jeju Island, are drastically plunging in population due to sea anemones. Black coral, also known as the red pine tree of the sea, is an endangered species protected by the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA), Ministry of Environment, and [...]