SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment’s resource recycling program, which began in 2014 to pressure industrial operations that dispose of large amounts of waste, has proven more effective than expected. According to data released by the Ministry of Environment Tuesday, many of the companies that are on board with the trial resource [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will establish a centralized “control tower” to manage its renewable energy policies and prepare backup facilities for solar and wind power plants for stable power supply, a government panel said Tuesday. The government plans to increase the ratio of renewable energy from the current 1.9 percent to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the South Korean government’s efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on nuclear energy and initiate a shift towards renewable alternatives, a surprising number of soon-to-be high school graduates have applied to study nuclear engineering at university this year. According to sources in the education sector on Thursday, the [...]
TAEAN, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent data has revealed that the number of leukemia and prostate cancer patients in Taean County has risen drastically since one of the country’s worst oil spills devastated the region in 2007. The worrying data put forward by Choi Gyeong-hwa, the director of information management at the Taean Environmental Health [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean environment authorities are set to announce a set of comprehensive measures designed to reduce the use of disposables next month, including the reintroduction of disposable coffee cup charges. The Ministry of Environment said on Thursday it was finalizing a draft for comprehensive countermeasures to curb the use of [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Seo District in the city of Gwangju announced on Thursday it has introduced street cleaning robots in the community that can also be operated by remote control. The move by district officials to trial street-sweeping robots comes with the community seeking ways to effectively deal with the issue of illegal [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed a request from his South Korean counterpart Wednesday to cut off oil shipments to energy-starved North Korea as a way of punishing the communist state for its latest nuclear test and also forcing it out to the dialogue table. South Korean President Moon Jae-in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Putting chickens on a forced diet as a way of getting pesticides out of their system has been proven ineffective, and actually raises the level of pesticides in their body, agriculture authorities have learned. A number of South Korean poultry farms embroiled in the latest egg contamination scandal are continuing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As complaints continue to be reported over foul smells, the Pyeongtaek city government has launched a task force to combat the issue of bad odor that is plaguing the city. The number of cases jumped from 203 in 2015 to 247 in 2016. This year, the number already stands at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Tuesday dismissed local residents’ request to temporarily invalidate the government’s offering of land to host a U.S. missile defense system. In April, 396 people filed an administrative suit against the provision of a former golf course in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang Province, to U.S. Forces [...]