SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck an area northwest of South Korea’s central city of Chungju early Friday, the state weather agency said. The quake took place in an area 22 kilometers northwest of Chungju’s city hall in North Chungcheong Province, at 2:35 a.m., according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. The [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A bill on promoting the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) industry will take effect this week, the government said Thursday, amid growing demand for eco-friendly technologies to tackle climate change. The bill on supporting the development of CCUS technologies and fostering the industry will take effect Friday, according [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a panel manufacturing unit of Samsung Electronics Co., said Thursday its new office building has received top ratings from a U.S. green building certification system for its energy efficiency and eco-friendly design. Samsung Display Research, the company’s newly built headquarters in Giheung on the southern outskirts [...]
ULJIN, South Korea, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The effects of climate change are becoming alarmingly evident in South Korea’s forests, with the iconic Korean red pine, or Geumgangsong, suffering severe declines. In a troubling sign of the broader crisis, the 600-year-old “Great King Pine,” a national forestry treasure located in the protected forest of Sogwang-ri, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Heavy snow and rain are forecast to affect many parts of South Korea on Monday during the extended Lunar New Year holiday, prompting authorities to raise the weather alert and brace for possible disruptions. This year’s Lunar New Year holiday, known as Seol, was extended to six days, lasting [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Prolonged exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) may elevate the risk of developing urological cancers, including kidney and prostate cancer, among South Koreans, according to a recent study published in the American Association for Cancer Research Journal. The research, conducted by a team led by Professor Park Yong-hyun from the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s average sea surface temperature reached an unprecedented high in 2024, surpassing the previous record set just a year earlier, according to data released by the National Institute of Fisheries Science (NIFS) on January 22. Research vessels recorded an annual average sea surface temperature of 18.74°C in South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea was suffocated by thick ultrafine dust for the second day in a row on Wednesday, prompting authorities to regulate the operations of government-owned vehicles, coal power plants and other large-scale dust emission facilities. Due to the continued influx of fine dust from abroad, the density of ultrafine [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Automotive industry experts on Tuesday urged the government to revise its ambitious target of deploying 4.5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2030, part of the nation’s greenhouse gas reduction goals, to align with practical realities. Yoon Kyung-sun, executive managing director of the Korea Automobile & Mobility Association (KAMA), called the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) —On January 14, 2025, a 44-vehicle pileup occurred on Jayu-ro in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, attributed to black ice—a thin, nearly invisible layer of ice on roadways that poses significant hazards to drivers. Black ice forms when moisture on the road surface freezes under specific conditions, such as when [...]