SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will strengthen its environmental and health safety inspections for battery, tire and plastic waste imported from Japan, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Environment said it will beef up radioactive and heavy metals tests on Japanese waste batteries, tires and plastics being imported into South Korea [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will actively seek ways to deal with Japan’s planned discharge of water contaminated as a result of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, amid concern storage space will soon run out. The treatment of radioactive water stored in tanks in Fukushima [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Cutlassfish that normally live in the warmer seas south of the Korean peninsula have appeared near the coast of Sokcho, Gangneung Province. In the northern county of Goseong, a fisherman caught a spearfish, another kind of tropical fish. These sightings are evidence that the Korean peninsula is turning into [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment has launched a project to bring back scarabs to South Korea, which disappeared in the 1970s. The ministry and the National Institute of Ecology (NIE) announced on Sunday that they recently brought 200 scarabs from Mongolia to restore their population. Scarabs, classified as Level II [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Jamsil Hangang Park hosted a paper boat race, a part of Seoul’s Hangang Summer Festival, as Seoul hit a record-high 33 degrees Celsius last Friday. Participants were found near the park’s information center cutting and gluing paper together to build boats in various shapes and sizes. The boats were [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The dangers of extremely hot weather will fast increase nationwide over the next decade, with more than half of South Korea’s local autonomous regions vulnerable, a government report warned Thursday. The report, issued by the Ministry of Environment based on climate change scenarios from the Korea Meteorological Administration, evaluates [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul will be holding a Paper Boat Race at the 2019 Hangang Summer Festival where participants will make paper boats to cross the Han River. The race, scheduled for this coming Friday to Sunday at Jamsil Hangang Park, will take place over a 50-meter long course set on the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Massive oil mist leaks from a factory of Hanwha Total Petrochemical in central South Korea in May were caused by the company’s failure to abide by safety procedures and a walkout of skilled employees, a joint government-private investigation team said Friday. The announcement came after two oil mist leaks [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s Songjeong Beach was met by a sudden deluge of marine waste on Monday morning after Typhoon Danas disappeared on Saturday, leaving behind marine trash that washed up on the beach. Some 100 people including employees of the beach management office, maritime life guards, and surfers pitched in to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of electric city buses on the roads of Seoul will increase to 143 this year, the metropolitan government said Friday. Beginning in November, an additional 114 electric city buses will be deployed on 19 routes throughout Seoul under the municipal government’s bid to reduce its fine dust [...]