DAEJEON, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Felled trees and timber abandoned at lumber sites will be recycled to generate eco-friendly electricity. The Korea South-East Power Co. signed a three-year contract with a South Korean pellet fuel manufacturer to use 215,000 tons of abandoned biomass each year to produce pellet fuel that can generate electricity. Biomass [...]
BONGHWA, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A state-run arboretum said Thursday it has been entrusted with storing seeds taken from lotus flowers that bloomed from seeds believed to have been from the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392). According to the National Baekdu-daegan Arboretum near Bonghwa, a town in South Korea’s southeast province of North Gyeongsang, the Haman [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A new emission charge will be imposed for nitrogen oxides, also known as NOx, starting in 2020, as part of the government’s effort to fight the causes of hazardous fine dust, the Ministry of Environment said. The Cabinet meeting on Monday approved a revision of the Enforcement Decree of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The average total costs of generating solar energy in South Korea will go down below 100 won (US$0.1) per 1 kilowatt hour five years later, a parliamentary report said Sunday. According to the report, the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of solar power will decline to below 100 won [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Benzene, at levels 1,170 times the government-set safety limit, has been detected among other toxic chemicals in groundwater near Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, the former site of the headquarters of the U.S. Forces (USFK) in Korea, Seoul metropolitan government said Friday. The government said the levels of toxins above [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Busan announced on Wednesday that it plans to create an urban forest to reduce fine dust and mitigate the urban heat island effect. The Blue Green Network, a project proposed by Busan, was recently approved by the Korea Forest Service as part of its new Social [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A ‘Black Santa’ appeared at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC held in Katowice, Poland on Tuesday. As if he had just come out of a chimney, the Santa had black stains on his clothes, beard, and his face. The Santa was actually Choi Yul, president of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Daijin Bed Co., a South Korean mattress maker, has refused to accept the local consumer agency’s call for it to compensate victims of products that contained a harmful radioactive substance, officials of the agency said Sunday. Late last month, the company told the Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) that it [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of eco-friendly cars made by Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister company Kia Motors Corp. jumped 2.1-fold in the first 11 months of this year, on strong domestic and overseas demand, industry data showed Sunday. The two flagship companies of Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s fifth largest automotive [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart Inc. outlets’ parking lots will be renovated into multipurpose facilities that will provide charging stations for electric vehicles as well space to accommodate car-sharing vehicles. E-Mart, in collaboration with Straffic, South Korea’s leading company in traffic management systems, will open Electro Hyper Charger Stations at six of its [...]