SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nuclear safety agency on Thursday announced a set of measures to prevent a recurrence of radon-emitting consumer products, including banning the use of the radioactive mineral monazite. The measures come as a number of consumer products ranging from mattresses to accessories have been found to emit higher-than-permissible [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has launched an investigation into a domestic firm that provoked the ire of the Philippines for illegally exporting waste to the country. The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in tandem with the Ministry of Environment and the Korea Customs Service, conducted a thorough search [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it will supply 30 hydrogen-powered buses to six major South Korean cities next year in a move to promote the zero-emission vehicles. In the pilot project, the 30 environment-friendly hydrogen electric fuel cell buses will be used for public transportation in Seoul, Ulsan, Gwangju, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) said on Monday that it had installed solar panels for 60,375 households in Seoul as of October this year. The number of solar panels for household use has increased from 13,778 households in 2015 to 35,932 in 2017. So far, a total of 162,145 [...]
GUNSAN, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A reservoir on the south bank of the Geum River has stayed idle except when it stores heavy rain to prevent flooding in the nearby industrial complex in Gunsan, a southwestern port city. The coastal reservoir has recently found a new role: The nation’s largest floating solar farm was [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul city on Thursday introduced an electric bus on a city bus line for the first time under a plan to employ 29 such buses by the end of the year. The environmentally friendly bus was put into operation on the No. 1711 route between Kukmin University and Gongdeok [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A technical committee tasked with verifying the accuracy of current databases for car exhaust emissions per each car model type has been launched by Ministry of Environment, according to an announcement by the ministry yesterday. The committee is composed of 30 professionals in the industry including researchers attached to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangnam district is installing fine dust indicators at all of its elementary schools. The indicators will display four different colors – blue, green, yellow, and red – in accordance with the information received from the air monitoring facility at Gangnam District Office. Blue, for instance, will mean that [...]
SUWON, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Suwon, Gyeonggi Province plans to expand its urban forest by 2022 to tackle fine dust. The city announced on Monday that it plans to reduce average fine dust levels by 30 percent before 2022, by expanding urban green spaces by 30 percent. Tree planting, covering urban [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Thursday it will scrap all benefits given to low-emission diesel vehicles in an effort to eventually take diesel cars off the roads to help curb fine dust. The decision to abolish the government’s “clean diesel policy” was part of a set of measures that the environment [...]