SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s ultrafine dust particles decreased 20 percent this winter, thanks to the new seasonal management system and decreased industrial activities due to the new coronavirus outbreak, the municipal government said Wednesday. According to the Seoul government, the capital’s density of ultrafine dust particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Dokdo, South Korea’s easternmost islets, is like a treasure trove of endangered animals, such as hawks and seals, the government agency said Tuesday. The National Institute of Biological Resources, which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment, conducted a five-year project to build a database for 2046 endangered [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean petrochemical firm will launch a project to improve awareness of resource circulation and establish a new domestic plastic recycling economy. Lotte Chemical Corp. held a signing ceremony for “Project Loop” with seven companies in Seoul Monday to establish a plastic recycling economy by improving the culture [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A disused public bus garage will be transformed into a “compact city” where large urban forests, public houses and social overhead capital (SOC) are interwoven. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Housing and Communities Corp. on Monday unveiled a winning international design project to reform Jangji Public Bus [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The first cherry blooming in Seoul this spring was observed Friday, the earliest in record due to warmer weather, the state weather agency said. It was seven days earlier than last year’s April 3 and 14 days earlier than the average date of April 10 between 1981 and 2010, [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A project to provide various accommodation facilities and programs will be carried out in earnest, focusing on low-lying national parks. The purpose of the project is to prevent cases where nature is damaged due to the culture of mountain climbing and to allow those from all walks of life, [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists has identified the role of Antarctic ice shelves, revealing that they function as barriers preventing warm sea water flowing in from outside, and slowing the melting of Antarctic glaciers. The ice shelves are huge sheets of ice, hundreds of meters thick, that surround [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a revision to the fine dust law, introducing a set of measures to better fight air pollution. Under the amendment, the government will be able to restrict the operation of vehicles, coal plants, construction sites and other large emitters during the peak period between [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and academia will jointly conduct a three-dimensional observation of pollutants such as yellow dust and fine dust flowing into South Korea. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said Thursday it will conduct a three-dimensional observation of air quality in the West Sea to analyze incoming air pollutants to [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fine dust emissions from coal-fired power plants fell 40 percent on-year over the winter season, data showed Tuesday, after the country scaled down the operations of such plants. Emissions of fine dust from local coal plants reached 3,212 tons over the December-February period, down from 5,320 tons [...]